Posted on 06/30/2017 4:52:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
It’s hard to believe American teenagers could be arrested for delivering a prayer, but that’s the kind of nation we live in – a nation that was fundamentally transformed by the previous presidential administration.
In 2011, the class president at Hampton High School in Tennessee wanted to deliver a prayer at graduation. The principal issued an edict that any child who attempted to pray would be stopped, escorted from the building by police and arrested.
That incident was one of dozens included in a stunning new Family Research Council report documenting a significant upsurge in government hostility to religion.
Since 2014 there has been a 76 percent increase in religious freedom violations, according to “Hostility to Religion: The Growing Threat to Religious Liberty in America.”
“The recent spike in government driven religious hostility is sad, but not surprising, especially considering the Obama administration’s antagonism toward biblical Christianity,” Family Research Council president Tony Perkins said.
Perkins said the 66-page report underscores the legitimacy of the actions taken by President Trump to end polices in federal agencies that “fan the flames of this religious intolerance.”
“This report is designed to quantify the threat to our First freedom and to challenge Americans to use their God-given freedoms to protect these freedoms we enjoy as Americans,” Perkins said.
Even though there is an increase in hostility – there is some good news.
Perkins noted “the growing courage of Christians, especially young Christians, to defend both their faith and their freedoms.”
That’s one of the reasons I wrote, “The Deplorables’ Guide to Making America Great Again.” I wanted to provide Americans with a handbook on how they can restore traditional values to their communities.
Among the cases listed in the report:
· An 11-year-old student in Hattiesburg, Mississippi was penalized for mentioning Jesus in a Christmas poetry assignment.
· Principal Frank Lay and Athletic Director Robert Freedom were charged with criminal contempt because they prayed over a meal. The pair was later found not guilty of violating an injunction banning the promotion of religious events at school.
· A Christian acapella group at James Madison University was told they could not perform “Mary Did You Know” because it was religious. They were directed to only sing secular songs.
· An Ohio library banned a Christian group from meeting to discuss natural marriage unless the group also included supports of same-sex marriage.
· Allstate Insurance Company fired a staffer for allegedly using a company laptop to write a column against homosexuality. The company said the column violated its diversity standards.
· San Diego firefighters were threatened with disciplinary action if they refused to participate in a gay pride parade. The firefighters were subjected to verbal abuse and sexual gestures during the parade.
· A woman who rented out rooms in her home was sued after she refused to rent to a same-sex couple.
· An Oklahoma bank was forced to remove religious Christmas decorations under orders from the Federal Reserve.
Travis Weber, FRC’s director of the Center for Religious Liberty, said he hopes the report will be a wakeup call for people of faith.
“In a society like ours, we must be the guardians of our own freedom,” he said. “Anyone who desires freedom in the future must take note of what these trends tell us about our freedom right now – relative to where we have come from – in order to protect freedom from going forward.”
This is why all my children went to private schools.....
Huge personal sacrifice for my wife and myself.....
/// In 2011, the class president at Hampton High School in Tennessee wanted to deliver a prayer at graduation. The principal issued an edict that any child who attempted to pray would be stopped, escorted from the building by police and arrested. ///
I’d love to ask the principal what his plan is when someone cuts the phone line to his house, turns on a cell phone jammer, and kicks in the front door... and gives him an all-expense paid trip to Hawaii... /sarc
The left will only learn... when there is a price to be paid for their actions, and will never learn UNTIL there is a price paid.
Thank you
But it remains a mystery why an increasing number of parents homeschool.
Is Secretary DeVos doing something about the destructive indoctrination/political correctness in our schools? I don’t hear any complaining from the left, nor do I hear any cheering from the true Americans.
Hope she isn’t wimping out.
One very important question. Do these anti prayer organizations either public or private hold Muslims to the same standards?? I think not.
The official state religion is Atheism in violation of the Constitution.
The religious beliefs of atheists are enforced by the state.
The only exception to this rule is islam.
Hampton is a small town with Scotch Irish Mountaineer heritage. Hampton is on the buckle of the Bible Belt
Wish I’d know about it in advance. I’d organize a few hundred Christians in Tennessee to picket the principal.
An eleven year old got into trouble for mentioning Jesus in a Christmas poem? Hello?
Idiotic, isn’t it?
I saw satan laughing with delight
_Don McLean
I doubt that they do. They probably have prayer rooms set up for them.
What an opportunity was missed at that graduation. I thought there was a thing called the First Amendment. Some of you may remember back when we had that Constitution. I would have said that prayer, got removed and arrested and THEN sued the school for all it was ever going to be worth (which apparently wasn't much). If there ever was a need for President Trump it is NOW should this country be saved.
You would think that the citizen and parents would chase that principal out of town, wouldn’t you?
” . .The only exception to this rule is islam.”
true,
these are powerful demonic spirits at work, Islam is more powerful than the state ‘god’ and American cult groups, which is why its gaining adherents to its evil here, the more it makes you look (or any Spirit for that matter) that is the more people think about it, the more power they receive because of it,
More people look when its destroying and blowing things up, using force, its not intuitive to how we would believe it works in the flesh,
Its now flooding itself in using terror and overcoming the weaker state ‘gods’ that reprobate politicians like Angela Merkel worship and have no defence against, they all serve the same master,
This is not a battle against flesh and blood,
What county, Davidson...Nashville has a LIBTARD SANCUTARY MAYOR, GOV IS PRO REFUGEE IMPORTATION, he is lame duck.
LA RAZA RANDY BOYD is running for Governor, smearing every one else.
Sen. Mae Beavers is our only hope of a true conservative candidate. With halsam’s very unpopular progressive gas tax hike we need Sen. Beavers to undo it and reign in Nashville mayor’s crazy LIBTARD policies.
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