We shall reap the whirlwind.
Posted on 08/26/2013 3:53:56 AM PDT by xzins
A public board of education in Florida has decided to keep opening its meetings with an invocation despite a complaint from atheist group Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
Brett Harvey of Alliance Defending Freedom says board members of the Clay County School Board are waiting for a U.S. Supreme Court decision.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Nov. 6 in a case after an atheist sued because she didn’t like the way people were praying to open their public meetings, Harvey tells OneNewsNow. A letter from Americans United to the school board claimed that courts have “consistently held” that public prayers violate the Establishment Clause in the Constitution, an often-cited argument by atheists.
The school board attorney advised the board to postpone any decisions because of the pending cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Clay Today newspaper reported.
“The Supreme Court has made it clear that opening public meetings with a prayer is constitutional,” says Harvey. “Once you allow for that, you have to give the individual the liberty to express themselves consistent with their own faith, whatever that is.”
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Forced Neutrality is also a government creation of a non-existent religion, so it is also an establishment of religion.
One person complains and the majority is punished.
Tell the one person to get a life.
These people don’t quit. They tried the intimidation here in Polk County about 2 years ago. People showed up in droves to take a stand, they went away and found another county to haunt and cause mayhem. Disgusting.
Keep praying. Let the black-robed wonders enforce their upcoming stupid decision.
And government schools ALWAYS violate the free-exercise clause. Children are taken, by force, from their parents, and prevented from practicing their religion for the better part of the day.
We homeschooled with a standard, old school, Catholic curriculum, and religion pervades the curriculum --even supposedly "neutral" subjects like math.
I would have LOVED such a curriculum. Godless schooling depressed me. And I resent it to this day.
Universal response:
I’m not concerned with what atheists think about our praying to God.
I’m more concerned about what God thinks about caving in to the atheists.
Good line. Thanks.
We shall reap the whirlwind.
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Somehow one person can shut down everyone else when its a leftist. Let a conservative complain that 6th grade cheerleaders are doing booty-call dances to raunchy rap lyrics and that person will be ridiculed.
The precedent in the public record seems to be seen in the Judiciary Committee Reports of 19 Jan.1853 US Senate Judiciary Committee Report by Mr.Badger—and corresponding US House Report 27 March 1854 by Mr.Meacham. These official reports reflect and affirm what Justice Joseph Story published in his seminal Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States ,1833— and all of these are reconciled to the debates in Congress June 8,1789—Sept.25,1789 when the Bill of Rights was being hammered out and adopted.I cannot say the same of the atheistic Enemy to our Constitution and way of life.Separation of Church and State can be reconciled to the Soviet Constitution under the Communists— but cannot be reconciled to our Bill of Rights Nor to the Constitution as these were adopted. The Florida School Board is well within its right to invite God into their affairs. And the atheists are preying on Ignorance— and Apathy.
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