Posted on 08/22/2005 9:55:20 AM PDT by AliVeritas
Why not the right to pray voluntarily at military school events?
The New York-based Anti-Defamation League informed the US Naval Academy in Annapolis that prayers at mealtimes were to be shut down.
Abraham Foxman wrote the academy’s superintendent stating that mealtime petitions to the Almighty were out of step with the American way. Therefore, they should be forbidden. The chaplain should be shown the exit sign. Midshipmen should sit down to their meals with no thought of thanking the Lord for the food.
To have prayer before meals at the academy was unAmerican in that it forced those in attendance to adopt a religion. Therefore, using the worn cliché of "separation of church and state" as the baseline, League membership informed the academy that it was time to close out the traditional prayers.
Foxman said that praying was a "’stamp of approval’ on religious observance" and had no place in the academy day.
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I really hate Abe Foxman. He's a tool. And I am not even sure how many Jewish values he espouses and lives by. Under him (and a few of his precedessors to be fair), the ADL has turned from a legitimate orgnaization into another ACLUish liberal whining post.
I agree.
Oh, for the days when people lived by values and a love for their country. Now, it's a culture of me and my many pleasures. You'd think people claiming to represent Jews (such as Abe Foxman), or Christians (like some of the more liberal Protestant denominations like the UCC) or Catholics (Catholics for choice? wtf?) would actually live by those values. Heavens forfend.
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