Posted on 04/14/2022 4:11:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
There are two beloved traditions in the Deep South: Friday night football and Sunday morning church.
God and the Gridiron are the official religions of the South.
How can we forget that great inspirational song, “Dropkick Me Jesus Through the Goalposts of Life?”
And it’s not uncommon to hear a preacher deliver an invocation from the memorial press box just before the marching band delivers a rip-roaring rendition of the national anthem.
They’ve been following that sacred playbook for decades in Jefferson County, Alabama.
But not anymore.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based group of atheists, agnostics and free-thinkers, filed a complaint on behalf of a “concerned parent.”
It seems as though a godless heathen took offense by prayers delivered before the start of two local high schools.
“Our complainant reports that their child has been made to feel uncomfortable because they don’t share the same religious beliefs as most of the other students at their school,” read their complaint letter.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation says that the Supreme Court has ruled any invocation delivered over a public address system is unconstitutional — including prayers delivered by students.
“There are people affected by this. I think some people treat it as, oh they just don’t want to hear prayer. They don’t like that Christians exist. It has nothing to do with that. It truly is just that public schools are a neutral place. They should be neutral with regard to religion,” attorney Chris Line told television station WBRC.
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This is all so sad...
But I’ll bet if the football team decided not to play until the policy was reversed, the stupid would find a whole new level of pressure to correct itself —
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Parents/attendees should stand and loudly recite the Lord’s Prayer before every game.
They can’t ban people praying.
Note to folks attending: Just do it. 😇
Bingo! All that’s needed in this country is for the good/decent/normal people in this country to become as intolerant of not getting their way as the deviants/freaks.
Their “child” doesn’t know what uncomfortable is yet. Keep going down this road without Christ, then they’ll know what uncomfortable really means.
SMH.
HMMMmmm...
I wonder just how many divisions the Alabama School District has?
Freedom OF religion isn’t freedom FROM religion.
Because there’s OTHER PEOPLE in the world.
No such thing as an activist atheist. They are devil worshipers in disguise.
Be hard to do that... our school puts out at least four D1 players every year and four more going to D2. This is the part of the country that produced Julio Jones and Wallace Gilberry and a slew of other NFL players. Those scholarships are way more important than God in some folk’s opinion. I know they say prayers over in Mobile County, we don’t at our school. We did have a family move in from Illinois and the daughter tried to bring her LGBTQ/Atheist agenda with her. She gained traction out the gate, but once the parents got involved, that all went away. They lasted about three years before they moved back to wherever it was they came from. We figure it would have been sooner, but the dad was waiting to get vested in his company and out from under having to pay his relocation back.
Seven
Ignore it. Simple.
“All that’s needed in this country is for the good/decent/normal people in this country to become as intolerant of not getting their way as the deviants/freaks.”
We are the victims of liberal bullying. Will we ever stand up?
Jefferson County - Urban, Birmingham
It takes courage which at one time I thought all Americans had. Sadly, not all do.
Start refusing to watch or play.
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