Posted on 03/19/2017 9:09:23 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
A prayer room at a Texas high school is raising legal concerns and the state’s attorney general’s office in a letter on Friday to school district’s superintendent indicated the school’s policy should be neutral toward religion.
Liberty High School’s prayer room, which is reportedly dedicated to students who practice Islam, allows the students to pray at the school on Fridays instead of leaving to say their required prayers. The letter cites the school’s own news site, which focused on the prayer room.
In a letter Friday to the the Frisco Independent School District, the Texas attorney general’s office outlined the legal concerns over the prayer room, indicating it may violate the First Amendment’s protection of religious liberty.
“Liberty High School’s policy should be neutral toward religion,” the letter from Deputy Attorney General Andrew Leonie to Superintendent Jeremy Lyons said. “However, it appears that students are being treated different based on their religious beliefs. Such a practice, of course, is irreconcilable with our nation’s enduring commitment to religious liberty.”
Sponsored Links by The letter congratulates the school’s effort to create an environment where students can practice their religion, and the high school’s various student-led religious groups. “Your willingness to guarantee the freedom of student-led religious groups is laudable,” the letter states, but also points out the words of the U.S. Supreme Court: ‘One religious denomination cannot be officially preferred over another.’”
“Reports from Liberty’s news site indicate that the prayer room is not available to students of all faiths. Instead, it appears that the prayer room is ‘dedicated to the religious needs of some students,’ namely those who practice Islam,” the letter reads.
The school’s news site, in its coverage of the prayer room, interviewed the principal of Liberty High School.
“This is my seventh year at Liberty, my first year it kind of started when a core group of students were leaving campus every Friday for Friday prayer,” said Principal Scott Warstler.
“Their parents would come pick them up, so they may miss an hour and a half to two hours to two and a half hours of school every Friday, so I met with those students and a couple of their parents and suggested if they would be okay if the students were able to lead the prayer at school as a group, and we gave them a space to do that so they didn’t have to be in a car traveling thirty minutes each way on a Friday missing an hour, hour and a half, of class,” said Warstler.
Leonie asks that school officials to ensure the prayer room is accessible to all students of all religious denominations.
Nope!
Madylin Murry said no prayer. That means them too.
Other religions don’t have a track record of beheading those who oppose them.
Other countries don’t have Trump to deport them.
A prayer room today, Sharia Law tomorrow. Send these filthy savages back to their third world sh*t holes!
True. Since we went down that road of banning prayer in schools, you can’t allow Moslems to pray but ban it for Christians or other religions.
Sometimes, politics make strange bed fellows. Here on this issue I would agree with atheistic types, who want to ban prayer. Since we have court cases banning prayer in schools, there is no way you can say, well, we meant to ban Christian prayers, but Moslems and their prayer rugs on school property, on school time, that’s ok. No it’s not ok.
How ironic...this is a clear violation of the Establishment Clause. Judge Watson used the same Establishment Clause to stay Trump’s temporary immigration ban but it is impossible to say that temporarily blocking people from entering the country establishes a state-sanctioned religion.
Do they prevent normal people from eating during ramadamadingdong? If not, it’s coming.
Provide a room and time ONLY for Christians and each other major religion then. Friday at “X” time will be deemed religion class. School either does or does not allow religion, prayers, etc. It isn’t okay to allow only one and not others. I really don’t want recruitment into ideology at school, religious, gender identity tolerance, socialism or any of it. Go to school to learn reading, math, etc. What did these people do in all the years of public school BEFORE now? This is more nudging us into being what we are not.
Send in the pigs
Send in the pigs
Well said.....
Shut it down
The audio isn’t great on this, but it’s certainly worth listening. If one turns up their volume it’s definitely understandable. Spencer explains it totally what they are doing.
Robert Spencer, Arvada, CO, March 22, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhvRwD18GVw
(11:59 minutes)
The camel’s hump is under the Western civ tent now.
Excellent visual. :)
Alinsky says use their rules against them.
Find brave folks to also use the prayer room. They cannot kick you out of State property.
In the room, freely express your new found religion, with grunts & groans, denounce Mohammed & the Koran, be loud, be obnoxious. Be creative. Then post on youtube.
Anti liberty is a two way street. While freedom still rings, you will get many more Islams to ‘repeal’ their fake religion because it relies upon submission. Do not ever submit. Be in their face. Cowards back down eventually.
When you denounce the Koran or Mohammed, inside the payer room, be ‘measured’ about it. Be gradual. Make videos.
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So, they allowed students excused absences every Friday? And, then kowtowed to their demand/request for a religious space? I cannot believe other parents were not upset with this obvious bias towards the muzzies! smh
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