Posted on 11/16/2023 8:08:56 PM PST by Morgana
A Georgia high school football coach was fired after he held a baptism on school grounds for his players.
Isaac Ferrell was terminated from his coaching position at Tattnall County High School after 20 players were baptized on October 23 behind the Battle Creek Warriors football field by a local pastor.
Ferrell has admitted to organizing the ceremony for the team after he posted videos of it on his Facebook that have since been deleted.
Tattnall County Schools Superintendent Kristen Waters said Ferrell was fired from his coaching position after the baptism and another undisclosed incident but still works in the district as a teacher.
Waters told Fox28 that the high school is actively looking for a new football coach 'that better aligns with the district's interests.'
The video of the ceremony was also shared to the team's Facebook page as pastor Gary Few had each player sit in a large black tub of water while he dunked their heads under.
'I baptize you now, my brother, in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,' Few said in the video.
The Freedom from Religion Foundation, a 'state/church watchdog,' were informed of the baptism from a worried community member.
Chris Line, the staff attorney for the foundation, sent a letter to Waters and requested the incident be investigated, saying that it was illegal under the First Amendment.
He claimed the ceremony was a 'constitutional violation', and that Ferrell should not be allowed to baptize or preach religion to students.
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The government preventing him from baptizing students is unconstitutional.
Georgia? I never knew ya.
What is this world coming to, the guy actually baptized people on campus. We can’t have that. He will go to prison for such a blatant act of Christianity. But the Muslims are allowed to pray in schools.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;”
The 2nd part of that statement has been grossly violated here.
I hope he sues so that others do not suffer the same fate.
Next time, Coach, just give them puberty blockers. You’ll be better off.
I encourage the increase of declared Christian people, but this coach should have know better. He had to be aware of how your typical school principal or administration would view this. If he didn’t have crystal clear, prior approval, he was asking for trouble. If he had conducted these baptisms off school grounds and had gotten parent permission, that would be a different story. Be valiant for The Lord, but also, be smart for your job!
The religious life of minors is in the hands of their parents, and this coach (an agent of the state) had no right to usurp their control. You yahoos would be yelling bloody murder if Coach had taken the team for COVID shots.
Teachers are able to encourage students to change how the identity sexually AND to hide it from the parents, but baptisms are a wrong thing.
They will get a lot more scared out of them, at the great white throne judgment.
That’s right.
Yet the old FFR will always give ISlime a free pass.
I do believe there is a coach in my state of Washington that just won a Supreme Court case along these very same lines. This could be interesting.
I would have a problem with this on school grounds, especially during school sponsored events. There are lots of churches that would loan him a Baptistry.
Isn’t that what a church is for?
The most maligned clause in the whole document
No problem with this on public grounds, whatsoever.
Of course, they’re are many that hate that “this is Eternal Life, to worship the One True God, AND, JESUS CHRIST, whom He has sent.”
And many would want banned, any form of the above statement on a student shirt, or witnessing The Christ, on school or other public grounds
Cell 15: The Imprisonment of Ernest Angley,
Munich, W. Germany, July 11, 1984
‘that better aligns with the district’s interests.’
How about what “better aligns with the children’s interests”?
unconstitutional? what? was this some sort of secret, involuntary baptism forced on these young men by this coach?
baptism, which has always been available to children in practice, is supposed to be completely public, otherwise it’s of no effect. did the parents not know what this coach and pastor were doing? if the parents knew, and the kids were baptized with the consent of all concerned, i have no problem with this. it’s perfectly within the constitutional freedom to practice one’s faith without gov’t interference.
from the post:
“Chris Line, the staff attorney for the foundation, sent a letter to Waters and requested the incident be investigated, saying that it was illegal under the First Amendment.
He claimed the ceremony was a ‘constitutional violation’, and that Ferrell should not be allowed to baptize or preach religion to students.”
i wonder who has the greater sin, the person who doxxed Coach Ferrell or the atheist foundation laywer Chris Line?
Luke 11:52 Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.
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