Posted on 09/26/2017 9:45:46 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
An Alabama school district decided to halt its decades-old practice of reciting the Lord’s Prayer over a loudspeaker before high school football games after atheists complained — but that did little to stop fans from still belting out the biblical invocation.
The fascinating moment, which united players, fans and parents from both teams, came on Friday night when the announcer called for a moment of silence in place of previous student-led prayer at Smiths Station High School games, AL.com reported.
The Lee County School System decided to halt the Lord’s Prayer tradition after the Freedom From Religion Foundation, an atheist activist group, wrote a letter complaining about it.
“It’s especially unacceptable for public schools to invite proselytizers to take advantage of an immensely popular school event in order to preach,” FFRF co-president Annie Laurie Gaylor said in a statement. “Any time we contribute to halting that, we feel vindicated.”
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Thank you Alabama!
BUMP!
The 1st Amendment says what it says, Congress shall make no law. They haven’t, at least directly. But what we have allowed is for the 3rd branch, the judicial, to break the 1st thru its rulings based on ‘separation of church and state ‘ Those words don’t exist. Congress doesn’t have to legislate, they let the court do it.
Well they make plenty of laws regarding the distribution of "government money" to the "public schools" and with the establishment of the "Department of Education", local schools are virtually mandates of the government school system, with plenty of strings attached.
I would say that unless private schools somehow are subsidized by Congress, they would be totally exempt from any religious restrictions.
Finally! Just do it anyway.
Pledge of allegiance banned at your kids’ school? Parents tip off the media and then gather outside the school and recite it themselves.
What a nice way to start my day!
“In God we trust.”
** I’m not sure if it is a good thing or a bad thing because the girls just recite it without thinking. It would be more meaningful if the adults in the bleachers would stop packing up and join in.**
Good point. Prayer should be from the heart. When talking to God, sincerity should be there. Understanding should be there. The “Lord’s Prayer” is broken down pretty good by this preacher, beginning at 35:15:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bB1Keu1HrZU
Thanks ForYourChildren.
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