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School to Teacher: Don't Pray for your Colleagues
Family Research Council ^ | May 19, 2017 | FRC Senior Writers

Posted on 05/19/2017 6:11:55 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever

For those questioning the claim that the public expression of faith is under attack, actions by public school administrators in Augusta, Maine should school them well on the issue. School officials have assumed the authority to decide that teachers are not allowed to let their colleagues know they are praying for them -- even in private conversations. It makes you wonder if they are still allowed to pray for them at all. Perhaps the school's next steps will be to investigate their thoughts!

Teacher Tony Richardson informed a colleague who was facing some difficulty (and who also attended the same church as her) she would be praying for him. Yet months later after a falling out between her and the colleague, a complaint was lodged against her, and the school gave her a "coaching memorandum" which told her that "[s]tating 'I will pray for you,' and 'you were in my prayers' is not acceptable—even if that other person attends the same church as you." In making such statements, according to the school, she "may have imposed some strong religious/spiritual belief system" on the prayed-for coworker.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: education; maine; prayer; publicschools; religiousfreedom
Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers. ~ J. Sidlow Baxter
1 posted on 05/19/2017 6:11:55 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever
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To: stars & stripes forever

I will pray for anyone I want to pray for whenever I want to pray.


2 posted on 05/19/2017 6:15:21 PM PDT by SaraJohnson ( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

The extent of the Christian oppression surfacing these days, should worry any person with morals.


3 posted on 05/19/2017 6:16:00 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: SaraJohnson

And these same socialists will give a room in the school to muslims to pray.

This country is so long overdue for a removal of socialists, idiots and scum.


4 posted on 05/19/2017 6:18:43 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: DoughtyOne; SaraJohnson

If I had children in that school, I’d yank them out faster than a person could say “AMEN.”


5 posted on 05/19/2017 6:19:21 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: stars & stripes forever

OK... Can you damn them to hades?
(This is absurd! Not only is it a first amendment issue, it’s a courtesy much like Merry Christmas ..... Oh wait!


6 posted on 05/19/2017 6:19:54 PM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: stars & stripes forever

That’s what they want. What we need to do is start demanding the firing of these folks, and registering them so they never have power over children again.


7 posted on 05/19/2017 6:21:32 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: stars & stripes forever

The headline should say they are told not to tell colleagues they are praying for them. It’s ridiculous either way, but we should be sticklers for truth. No need to exaggerate, it’s already crazy enough.


8 posted on 05/19/2017 6:22:16 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: DoughtyOne

[That’s what they want.]

Will the teachers’ congregation come to the reprimanded teacher’s defense or remain silent ‘to be fair’ to the offended teacher?


9 posted on 05/19/2017 6:29:16 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: stars & stripes forever

I’ll let them know I’m praying for their worthless butts.


10 posted on 05/19/2017 6:30:42 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: stars & stripes forever

As I heard them say in Maine the last time I was up there: “Go Piss Up A Stump!!!”


11 posted on 05/19/2017 6:45:20 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Oh for Heaven’s Sake . . .

Why redact these idiots? OUT THEM

http://www.augustaschools.org/cony_high_school.php


12 posted on 05/19/2017 6:47:44 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW! BOYCOTT Mexico nba NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: SaraJohnson

Amen, Sister!


13 posted on 05/19/2017 6:52:43 PM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: stars & stripes forever

It’s only the atheist who can impose their religion on anyone they want.


14 posted on 05/19/2017 7:05:22 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: hoosiermama

You just about have the worst and only curse my sainted mother used to say in a true fit of pique: “damn them to hell and away.”

That was the worst it got.

If I said anything similar-or worse-well.....ivory soap is not as bad a dial, but it is close.


15 posted on 05/19/2017 7:14:47 PM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! And please, God, bless the USA again.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Darn this school to heck!


16 posted on 05/19/2017 7:42:59 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: LeoTDB69

“It’s only the atheist who can impose their religion on anyone they want.”

Yep-—those who control the words/language/textbooks, news, radio will force their worldview on the masses.

PS. The evil Marxists/Progressives had total control over curricula, textbooks, and “news” since the 30s. It was their 200 year “plan” to get America under total control which failed with Jefferson and Jackson but culminated with the evil Pres. Wilson and the Federal Reserve and the Marxist Income Tax. Wilson was blackmailed and forced to stick a communist on the Bench, which FDR did willingly, so they could destroy our legal system and twist the laws and make them irrational so men are women, Up is Down, Vice is Virtue and Slavery is Freedom.

All planned by the psychopathic sodomite satanists (Rothschild, Freemasons (all secret societies) /later CFR) who funded Marx, funded all the wars, (including the war of 1812), founded Bolshevism, communism and socialism to wipe out 60 million Christians in Russia and Armenia and to ban the Bible from the public schools by 1960s in America. They wiped Christianity off of Europe—esp. Germany very early, where they invented the word “homosexual” so they could bring in the Weimar Republic—the most perverted, vulgar, disgusting culture since Sodom and Gomorrah. Vice destroys all cultures.

Separation of Church and State-—not in the Constitution. What that has morphed into, though, is “Separation of State and Faith” which is not possible. Everything promotes a “faith” in something or someone.

The Rothschilds’ and Warburg’s devious plan was to insert satanism for Christian ethics with John Dewey in the 30s-—take over all textbooks and put psychologically sick, warped ideas into the heads of children. Hyper-sexualization is the easiest way to totally corrupt young children and by 1970 they got Lukacs’ “Sex Ed” into all public schools to destroy virtue formation and warp conceptions of sex and mature relationships. Without virtue, we are all slaves of the state. There is no inner control of base emotions without virtue formation in children. All Classical Christian curricula used to instill virtue into children—until John Dewey who destroyed the curricula for moral relativism (satanism).

Only Classical Christian curricula teaches agency and thinking for self (Free Will)....all other systems are programming into “group-think”—collectivism which is the same as socialism and satanism—both are moral relativistic cultures—No Objective Truth, no God-Given Natural Rights—No Constitution—only indoctrination into satanism and socialism (group-non-think) to destroy the possibly of a Christian worldview in children.

The “God is Dead” group in Germany (the ones raping all the boys in their “boy scout orgy outings”, knew to get total control over the masses by the few elites, they had to destroy the Christian worldview in little children. They had to get the children OUT of the Natural family so they could easily be warped and have individualism stripped from them——all identity, so that all children are interchangeable, irrational bots (cattle) for their radical egalitarianism where there is no age differences, no sex differences, etc.—so the sodomites could again return to their pagan Babylonian days where raping, torturing and killing children was “normal”


17 posted on 05/19/2017 8:06:37 PM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: stars & stripes forever

This will NOT stand up in court- where is the Christian version of the ACLU? Take this to court using tax payer funds like the vile ACLU does- and sue the hell out of this school for violating the rights of those teachers who are constitutionally protected to express their religious beliefs-


18 posted on 05/19/2017 9:18:06 PM PDT by Bob434
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