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Editorial: The Supreme Court ruling on school prayer deserves a big fat F
Los Angeles Times ^ | July 5, 2022 | The Times Editorial Board

Posted on 07/07/2022 6:21:25 AM PDT by artichokegrower

Ruling last week in favor of a football coach who insisted on praying on the field, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out 60 years of legal precedent, leaving the nation's schools in the untenable position of having little recourse to protect students from religious coercion on campus.

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It's not enough for school staff not to impose obvious consequences on students who don’t join their prayers. Students and their parents should never be made to feel as though this is a possibility, nor should they be encouraged to join a teacher’s prayers.


Press release from my local county office of education:

TASK FORCE RELEASES LGBTQ+ BOOKLIST FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIES June 15, 2022

A task force convened by the Santa Cruz County Office of Education has released a booklist called the “Top 40 LGBTQ+ Books that Every School Library Should Have,” a project undertaken as part of a commitment to safety and inclusiveness for LGBTQ+ students

The final list of 40 books includes fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, anthologies and picture books. Ten titles were selected for each of the gradespans of PreK-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12.

https://santacruzcoe.org/task-force-releases-lgbtq-booklist-for-school-libraries/

1 posted on 07/07/2022 6:21:25 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Kids are under enormous Woke pressure.
They need a little bit religion to balance it!


2 posted on 07/07/2022 6:23:17 AM PDT by AZJeep
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Dems are going Ape-SHT over Prayer. Along with going Nutso over Abortion they are evermore headed toward an Election Disaster in Novemeber.


3 posted on 07/07/2022 6:23:58 AM PDT by CptnObvious
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To: artichokegrower

It should be pretty clear by now who it is the left serves.

Now the rest of us need to pick a side.


4 posted on 07/07/2022 6:24:54 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: AZJeep

“Religious coercion on campus” is bad, but homosexual/transgender coercion is good.

Got it.


5 posted on 07/07/2022 6:25:22 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (qd4)
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To: artichokegrower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZgVBFYM2qk


6 posted on 07/07/2022 6:25:53 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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The Dems go Ape-SHT over EVERYTHING when they’re told NO


7 posted on 07/07/2022 6:26:04 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: artichokegrower

Take your books and go back in your closet. Evil.


8 posted on 07/07/2022 6:28:33 AM PDT by FES0844
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‘Ruling last week in favor of a football coach who insisted on praying on the field...’

has anyone yet explained why this football coach found it necessary to go out to midield to offer his prayers...? isn’t that basically saying ‘hey, look at me...I could pray silently on the sidelines, but then no one would see me...’


9 posted on 07/07/2022 6:29:56 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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“Ruling last week in favor of a football coach who insisted on praying on the field, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out 60 years of legal precedent...”

Sixty years of legal precedent????

Well sixty years ago the Supreme Court thought nothing of throwing out centuries of legal precedent.


10 posted on 07/07/2022 6:30:02 AM PDT by odawg ( )
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And a government school is just the right entity to supply it? Think again, clearly this time!


11 posted on 07/07/2022 6:31:43 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: artichokegrower

Boys can be girls, but heaven forbid they pray.

Can we start culling the morons now?


12 posted on 07/07/2022 6:36:29 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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Why did Jesus go to the mount to deliver His sermon? He could have just as easily done it at someone's house off to the side. Or why did He preach from a boat offshore to the crowds on the shore? He could have done it more privately.

Freedom of Religion is not the same as freedom of worship. Freedom of Religion is our God-given and Constitutional protected right. You would have us worship somewhere you can't see us, right?

13 posted on 07/07/2022 6:36:35 AM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: IrishBrigade

I’d guess he wants to publicly profess his personal faith.


14 posted on 07/07/2022 6:36:50 AM PDT by skeeter
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I assume it was a silent offer to join in if so desired, which many players (from both teams) often accepted.


15 posted on 07/07/2022 6:38:05 AM PDT by fluffy
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How do you coerce someone to pray? If states don’t want this behavior, let them say so in local state law.


16 posted on 07/07/2022 6:38:53 AM PDT by Poison Pill
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Dems are going Ape-SHT over Prayer.

Satan hates the worship of the Lord.

17 posted on 07/07/2022 6:39:07 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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Entirely predictable that the “liberal” progressive leftists would be as adamant in their distaste for this ruling. They really do not believe in a Higher Power, as they are the absolute highest beings in the Universe, having spontaneously arisen and evolved from the slime.

Just the smartest people in the room, they are.


18 posted on 07/07/2022 6:39:27 AM PDT by alloysteel (There are folks running the government who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches - Will Rogers)
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has anyone yet explained why this football coach found it necessary to go out to midield to offer his prayers...? isn’t that basically saying ‘hey, look at me...I could pray silently on the sidelines, but then no one would see me...’

How would that be a good role model?

19 posted on 07/07/2022 6:39:56 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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The way the left would like to interpret religious rights is to suggest that everyone can believe in religion, but you can’t ever mention it. Everyone can work for the government but if you are religious and say it, you can be fired.

This way of thinking is wrong in at least two points. One is that people in government are allowed to be citizens and therefore they may come with religious convictions. And if so they have a right to them.

And second, atheism is a religion. The left would have you believe that the government needs to be atheistic because that is not religious. But in reality they are just promoting their religion over other peoples.

A man has a right to pray if he is a student or a president or a coach. It seems that all these people have a right not to pray. But the left does not see the right to pray as being equal to the right not too.


20 posted on 07/07/2022 6:42:14 AM PDT by poinq
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