Posted on 10/09/2013 10:42:45 AM PDT by xzins
Even though they were warned there could be trouble, a Kansas school board nevertheless voted to allow student-led prayers and even use of the school's public address system to do so.
At its meeting on September 23, the school board in Liberal voted unanimously (7-0) to allow student-led prayers at all school activities and to provide access to the school's public address system. According to the Leader & Times newspaper, the item was added “spontaneously” to the agenda near the end of that meeting.
“We do live in a democratic society, and I personally feel like our community would support that decision, regardless of the rest of the world,” said board member Nick Hatcher, who introduced the idea.
“I think that’s one of the greatest things we’ve ever done,” said fellow board member Tammy Sutherland-Abbott afterwards – who also commented that she supported the idea because she was tired of allowing the opinions of a few in America to dictate what “the rest of us” could do.
Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, tells OneNewsNow that the key issue to note about the board’s action is that the prayers will be initiated by students.
“What we have here is not the school speaking, but the school allowing the students to speak,” he explains. “So that, I think, is a critical difference here where the students are able to speak. If other students are able to use other venues to announce their clubs or to give inspirational quotes or messages, then these students should be allowed to do the same thing and to speak from a religious or a particular Christian viewpoint.”
(Excerpt) Read more at onenewsnow.com ...
It’ll get entertaining the first time one of the students uses the system to announce “Allah akbar!”
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WTH?
Why not?
Even here in deep blue Connecticut, the public schools allow the Catholic church to use classrooms for after-school religious education.
The facilities are public, just like the Liberal, Kansas public announcement system is public.
Just checked a breakdown of religions for Liberal, Kansas.
There are zero muslims listed.
Good.
Indeed. Thanks for the ping!
It’s getting harder and harder to find places to bump good news
Liberal is a hijacked word.
To refer to the left, I now use ‘progressive’.
Progressive, you know, like cancer?
I *like* it!
To carry it a little further: “Progressive” - because “metastasis” is too long.
So? Do you think there are zero wisecracking high school students?
This is a golden opportunity for them to jerk the school around with no possible repercussions.
The article says we’re talking about representatives of school clubs and other allowed activities. Either their contribution pertains or doesn’t pertain. If it didn’t, then I’d make that ruling.
Got that too. Did some fishing. I found it HERE.
Thanks
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