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Brandon High School Band pulled from football game performance (and fined $7,500)
MSNews ^ | August 21, 2015 | Maggie Wade

Posted on 08/23/2015 11:10:46 PM PDT by yorkie

The Brandon High School Band did not perform at halftime during the season-opening game Friday night. A statement from the Rankin County School District says a July federal court order is the reason the band was banned from Friday night's halftime show.

The band had been slated to perform the hymn "How Great Thou Art."

The district made the decision to ban the halftime show after learning the hymn was included in the performance.

"It bothers me because you look at the schools and all of the school shootings and all the bad things that are happening, and wonder why. It's because we're allowing evil to step in," parent Kimberly Moore said.

Moore and dozens of parents and students sang the hymn during halftime Friday night in response to those who banned its performance.

U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves issued a court order on July 10, which said "defendants are permanently enjoined from including prayer, religious sermons or activities in any school sponsored event including but not limited to assemblies, graduations, award ceremonies, athletic events and any other school event. That means administrators, teachers and staff of the Rankin County School District may not participate in any religious activity, or solicit or encourage religious activities at school or while performing duties as a RCSD employee.”

Judge Reeves said the district continued to promote Christianity during school hours after it agreed to stop. He fined the district $7,500 and again ordered it to stop sponsoring prayers at graduations, assemblies, athletic competitions and other school events.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: band; brandonhighschool; education; government; howgreatthouart; hymn; mississippi; rankincounty; religion; tyranny
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To: yorkie
Donald Trump would do well to pay the $7,500 fine and then pay double that to the marching band.

Would get him a ton of publicity while sticking it to these intolerant fascists.

41 posted on 08/24/2015 4:34:43 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (We gave GOP the majority to take care of business and they let us down. Time for Trump/Cruz)
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To: Leaning Right
If you let the hymn in, then some islamist would demand that a muslim chant be put in also. . .

Who cares what some islamist would demand? The proper course of action would be for the district to ignore the demand and ignore any judge who tells them to do otherwise. It's a local matter. Singing a religious song is not establishing a religion. If it comes to that, the Constitution is silent on states or localities having established religions. It's Congress that "shall pass no law" establishing a government religion.

States that insist on banning religious practice or official toleration within their own constitutions are free to do so. Other states are free to do otherwise—countenancing some and not others, or apportioning more "air time" to some religions than others.

Now is the time to have this fight. The Constitution makes sense, and it says what it really says—not what a handful of 20th-century Communists on the Supreme Court decreed in fortune-cookie aphorisms.

42 posted on 08/24/2015 4:53:30 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: yorkie

State where this occurred?


43 posted on 08/24/2015 5:05:15 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: BerryDingle; yorkie

It is so much more considerate when a poster lets us know from the beginning the state that is involved.


44 posted on 08/24/2015 5:09:40 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: DoughtyOne
O Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder,
Consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made;
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
Thy power throughout the universe displayed.

Refrain:
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art.
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art!

Refrain

When through the woods, and forest glades I wander,
And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees.
When I look down, from lofty mountain grandeur
And see the brook, and feel the gentle breeze.

Refrain

And when I think, that God, His Son not sparing;
Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in;
That on the Cross, my burden gladly bearing,
He bled and died to take away my sin.

Refrain

When Christ shall come, with shout of acclamation,
And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart.
Then I shall bow, in humble adoration,
And then proclaim: "My God, how great Thou art!"

45 posted on 08/24/2015 5:28:35 AM PDT by BraveMan
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To: sunrise_sunset

It’s a great song!

We sang it yesterday at my leftist hippy church!


46 posted on 08/24/2015 5:59:01 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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To: yorkie

Madness. In every single one of my kid’s choir performances over the past two years, many of their songs were about God, or faith in God. No one complained. Yet, this band can’t even play the notes to a religious song … no matter the lack of words? Madness.


47 posted on 08/24/2015 6:55:29 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: dr_lew
Yet, we all got along.

I was glad when school prayer was ended. Too many kids were making a mockery of it, and some were utilizing interpretations that were not correct for my denomination. Religious ceremony is best kept where it can be sacred.

48 posted on 08/24/2015 7:16:43 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Jess Kitting

Sorry, Jess - I added that, and forgot to add ‘district’.


49 posted on 08/24/2015 8:35:44 AM PDT by yorkie
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To: BlueDragon

The view count is NOW almost 106,000 since it was uploaded two days ago. People are NOT happy about this, and the word is spreading fast!


50 posted on 08/24/2015 8:37:57 AM PDT by yorkie
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To: Mmmike
The only fix is to separate the government from education, so that these football games would not have any sort of government-related implications.

My fix was a Constitutional amendment. Your fix is better, and much more doable.

51 posted on 08/24/2015 9:14:14 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: yorkie

Brandon is where my little sisters grew up. Dad first retired to a house in Brandon and then moved to a different house and town with lower property taxes after the girls were off to college. Back then, Brandon was a orange grove and cow pasture. Now it is all built up and none of my sisters live there.


52 posted on 08/24/2015 11:51:09 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: afraidfortherepublic
"Our only difference now is that we still say Trespasses, instead of debts."

Interesting. I'm a Baptist Deacon -- and I still prefer "trespasses" "Debt" doesn't even approach the meaning of "trespass".

53 posted on 08/25/2015 3:27:55 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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