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.”
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“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.
The whole Marxist meme that there is separation of Church and State (which is true, btw) has morphed into separation of Faith and State (and EVERYONE has faith and EVERYTHING—idea—concept—promotes a FAITH). It is total DEHUMANIZATION (Marxism) to separate human beings from faith——it is IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is no “neutrality” in any concept or idea that you teach chlldren. IOW, the schools ALWAYS promote a RELIGION-—ALWAYS——but it is ONLY irrational religions like materialism, sodomy and baby-killing Rites (satanism), Humanism, satanism (moral relativism), (Freemasonry (sodomy.babykilling) and islam where you HATE Christians and Jews-—all non-muslims have to be destroyed or subjugated.
WE HAVE TO TAKE BACK THE MINDS OF OUR CHILDREN. The Leftist satanists are embedding their ideology (which is SICK and unnatural) into young children who are ripped from the mother/father Natural family so they can have ALL concepts completely warped and Common Sense erased in children so they remain puerile and DUMB for life (snowflakes).
Yes, I am yelling. The only reason these evil muslims and satanists, sodomites and pedophiles can get away with what they are doing is because decent parents are allowing the evil to shape the minds of their little children.
YOU RAISE THEM with the ONLY worldview which created the Age of Reason and the US Constitution and Modern Science (CHRISTIAN!!!!!!) That is why the War is on erasing the Christian Mindset, because without it, you remain irrational and evil-—Good will be Evil, Sodomiizing others a virtue (to be proud of it is satanism) and Slavery will be Freedom.
Wisdom is discerning Good and Evil and ONLY Christiantiy formed the Justice (virtue) System of the USA-—which NEVER allows others to be used in evil unnatural, vile , dehumanizjng ways or lies being “taught” and embedded into little children, like boys can be girls. Truth and only Chrisitanity promotes “truth” and debate of ideas and unity and love and sacrifice........no other worldview should ever be allowed in “classrooms” without the debate (Socratice method and Aristotelian Logic which was banned along with the Christian Traditions, curricula and all the Wisdom of the ages that led to the Renaissance. Evil satanists control ALL MSM and ALL curricula (Common Core) etc, to destroy the minds of little children. (Fichte, 1810, “snow is black”)
And to think that Texas is supposed to be politically conservative, the takeover is so rapid.
Just think how fast it will be for the rest of the country.
No wonder these barbarians keep on crowing: Allahu Akhbar. They never had it so easy.
We can’t say the name Jesus on campus and they get a free one room Mosque.
Seriously?
The department of education has it’s head so firmly implanted, it..., well never mind.
Pelosi would put a stop to that “nonsense”.
Wow, one I posted. I totally forgot! Thank you for finding that. :)
And it is defecating on the tent floor.
The video is correct. The important issue is culture, not terror
AMEN!
Indeed! Every idea promotes faith! It is IMPOSSIBLE to separate a sentient human from faith!
That is why NO NO NO government school is religiously neutral! It is IMPOSSIBLE! For that reason alone government schooling should be abolished.
All schools must choose between either a godless or God-centered worldview. Both worldviews are based on faith since neither can be proven or disproven. Neither worldview is religious neutral in content or consequences for the child, his community, or the nation.
No one should be forced ( under police threat) to attend a NON-neutral government school indoctrination camp.
No citizen should be forced ( under police threat) to pay for religiously NON-neutral government school.
The Toulouse massacre that Geller was speaking of that afternoon in 2012...how soon these killings are forgotten:
The also have armies of so-called "good" teachers ( that everyone seems to know or is married to) to help spoon feed the evil to these little ones. They **willingly** seek this evil work. They **willingly** accept the money for implementing the evil, and no one is holding a gun to their heads forcing them to do it.
Millions of Americans go to work every day and manage to make a living actually helping children ( directly or indirectly) without filling the minds of children with evil. Teachers could, too. They **WILLINGLY** choose not to.
The late Marshall Fritz said that people were always telling him they agreed that government school is an evil—”Except we’re lucky! OUR government school is really good!”
There is no doubt at all. This is unconstitutional.
ALL government schooling is unconstitutional. Why?
Please read savagesusie’s post #41.
Please read my post #49.
Sue the school. Get those buggers out of there and make the school free of any religion.
Whatever is wrong with those administrators? Tough titty that those kids have to have prayer at an inconvenient school time. Hold them responsible for what they miss.
I have no sympathy for any of it.
That is not possible. A religiously neutral school is impossible. Why?
Answer: Please read posts #41 and #49.
Please try to have an open mind about this. I know for many this is a shocking concept that government is not now and never was religiously neutral.
government **schooling** is not now and never was religiously neutral. I forgot to include the word, “schooling”.
Sue the school. Get those buggers out of there and make the school free of any religion.
Whatever is wrong with those administrators? Tough titty that those kids have to have prayer at an inconvenient school time. Hold them responsible for what they miss.
I have no sympathy for any of it.
cudda been worst...cudda put in foot washing stations....
I just learned this week that every prayer room becomes a mosque in their eyes. So, no, either a room for every religion or none.
I agree make the kids responsible for the work they miss by leaving class. Too bad their allah can’t be prayed to after class time is over.
I beg ya’ll homeschool your kids!!!
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