Posted on 06/28/2014 5:01:40 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican, has signed legislation that will explicitly allow students in public schools across the state to engage in voluntary student-led prayer.
The new law permits students to create religious clubs and coordinate prayer groups, reports North Carolina Fox affiliate WGHP.
The three-page law also allows students to pray by themselves or in groups — aloud or silently — in exactly the same way they can discuss or think silently about any other issue.
Additionally, students will be able to communicate their religious beliefs in written assignments and artwork under the new law without fear of censorship from teachers or school officials.
The legislation does set limits on prayer and God talk at taxpayer-funded schools. Religious students won’t be able to interrupt other students who are trying to learn, for example. They also can’t harass nonreligious students.
The law, which takes effect immediately, sailed through North Carolina’s House and Senate chambers with overwhelming support. In the Senate, the vote was 48-1. In the lower chamber, it was 106-9.
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FINALLY - a STATE exercising its RIGHTS! May many follow this lead.
It's long past time to push back on the left's assault on religious expression in public schools and elsewhere. This is a great start that we can hope will encourage other states to consider similar common-sense legislation pertaining to the right of public school students to reference God in their essays or form voluntary religious clubs devoted to prayer, worship and good works.
The secular left has had it their way for decades as religious expression was forbidden in public schools as if it were toxic. I believe our nation has been diminished because of their 'success'. Let's fight back!
Now THIS is a B.F.D.!
“The North Carolina bill is the kind of legislation that is needed in every state,” said Bill Donohue, who heads the Catholic League, in a press release. “To that end, we are contacting the governors in the other 49 states asking them to adopt the North Carolina law as a model in their own state. We are also sending them a copy of the law that Governor McCrory signed.”
If conservatives/Christians/normal people were half as engaged and organized as homosexuals and their supporters, the country wouldn’t be in the mess we are in now.
About time!
The CPUSA and the NAALCP will be deeply upset.
It amazes me that a state has to make a special law to give people constitutionally-protected rights. I thought that was the whole point of the Constitution.
By that, I mean the constitution still acts on the states, yet the states are no longer in the government to secure their interests.
Some teachers had given students a hard time for making God the subject matter of essays.
This would get them to go easier, though I am not sure how a Christian teacher might react if a Muslim student extolled Allah in an essay. Though I’m sure that teacher would find it more possible to be objective (it’s about the use of language, not the topic) than a Muslim teacher looking at an essay extolling Jesus from a classic Christian perspective.
That did majorly factor out the state governments. They had their own vices which was why the 17th was viewed as a reform. But they had virtues too. Ultimately no political arrangement can itself enforce virtue.
They can’t enforce virtue but they sure can destroy it.
Without God in the picture, a move in ANY direction will “destroy virtue.”
Exactly. And I remember the dems booing God.
I love this. How sad that legislation has to be passed on this. We really have gone backwards overall in the country. Thank you North Carolina! May God bless you in 2014 when you get rid of Senator Hagan for Senator Tellis. If every state acted as North Carolina since 2012, our country would be absolutely incredible and on it’s way to recovering from the liberal slide.
Maybe God is getting ready to boo them back.
I have been teaching in NC for the past 9 years and have always encouraged my students to express their views — including those based on faith/God/religion etc. For students of faith to be shut out of the “national conversation” is, to me, so typically liberal - and unconstitutional (was I redundant there?) I have always fostered a climate where my students of faith can feel comfortable expressing their views. I have had moments where I’ve counseled those same students who were grieving or experiencing troubles and, at those moments of hurt or doubt, I’ve made use of scripture and prayer. They know I am a christian (I assume that is exactly why they’ve chosen to speak with me on such matter). My counsel has not only been invited, but sought out. To do otherwise, to limit my speech at those times is to let these students founder; to fail to offer instruction for the soul. I’m a teacher. I instruct the whole child.
I teach American Lit. to my 11th graders and make no apologies for covering those writings that express Christian (and STRONGLY held Christian) beliefs. Don’t see how you can do justice to American Lit. without doing so. British Lit. (which I teach to my Seniors) is the same thing. You are not teaching Beowulf, Hamlet, Paradise Lost, Romantic and Victorian era poetry without getting into some serious discussion about the God of the Bible (that’s why I love my job!)
The history of literature can BEST be understood by the existence and then subsequent removal of God from the pages of literature. So, too, our world today. My students leave our classes understanding that the history of humanity indicates there has always been movement by men and women that fluctuates toward and, more usually, away from their Creator.
Yep - I may be optimistic, but I think we will start to see more and more of this type push back. It has finally become crystal clear to a large sector that they intend to take absolute control over the People and if we don't begin an actual movement, we are doomed.
Not only literature, but music and art as well. You can’t leave God out and really teach these subjects.
Boy, you are so right! Sometimes I wonder if real persecution wouldn’t be a good thing for American Christendom. Anyway, this is where we will win the battle if we ever will for our nation. Without a real religious revival that changes the fabric of our culture, and inclines our hearts back to the Lord we are doomed.
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