Posted on 03/18/2002 12:27:48 PM PST by OPS4
Fw: Football game announcement
This is a statement that was read over the PA system at the football game at Roane County High School, Kingston, Tennessee, by school Principal, Jody McLoud, on September 1, 2000. I thought it was worth sharing with the world and hope you will forward it to all your friends. It shows clearly just how far this country has gone in the wrong direction.
"It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football games, to say a prayer and play the National Anthem, to honor God and Country. Due to a recent ruling by the Supreme Court, I am told that saying a Prayer is a violation of Federal Case Law.
As I understand the law at this time, I can use this public facility to approve of sexual perversion and call it, "an alternate lifestyle," and if someone is offended, that's OK. I can use it to condone sexual promiscuity, by dispensing condoms and calling it, "safe sex." If someone is offended, that's OK. I can even use this public facility, to present the merits of killing an unborn baby, as a "viable means of birth control." If someone isoffended, no problem. I can designate a school day as, "Earth Day" and involve students in activities to worship religiously and praise the goddess, "Mother Earth," and call it "ecology."
I can use literature, videos and presentations in the classroom that depict people with strong, traditional Christian convictions as, "simple minded" and "ignorant" and call it, "enlighten-ment." However, if anyone uses this facility to honor God, and to ask Him to bless this event with safety and good sports-manship, then Federal Case Law is violated. This appears to be inconsistent at best, and at worst, diabolical. Apparently, we are to be tolerant of everything and anyone, except God and His Commandments.
Nevertheless, as a school principal, I frequently ask staff and students to abide by rules with which they do not necessarily agree. For me to do otherwise would be inconsistent at best, and at worst, hypocritical. I suffer from that affliction enough unintentionally. I certainly do not need to add an intentional transgression. For this reason, I shall "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's," and refrain from praying at this time. However, if you feel inspired to honor, praise and thank God, and ask Him, in the name of Jesus, to bless this event, please feel free to do so. As far as I know, that's not against the law----yet."
One by one, the people in the stands bowed their heads, held hands with one another, and began to pray. They prayed in the stands. They prayed in the team huddles. They prayed at the concession stand, and they prayed in the announcer's box. The only place they didn't pray was in the Supreme Court of the United States of America - the seat of "justice" in the "one nation, under God."
Somehow, Kingston, Tennessee remembered what so many have forgotten. We are given the Freedom OF Religion, not the Freedom FROM Religion. Praise God that His remnant remains!
Celebrate Jesus in 2002! Jesus said, "If you are ashamed of Me, I will be ashamed of you before my Father."
Yes, I do Love God. He is my source of existence and Savior. He keeps me functioning each and every day. Without Him, I will be nothing, but with Him, I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me. Phillipians 4:13
Pray for the strength to spread the good news this Easter Jesus Christ has overcome Death and Evil Sins for all who care to Stand and Deliver his message. Ops4 God BLess America!
(Of course, if he had used the facility to "educate" the people about Islam, it would have been called "embracing diversity.")
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Except the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Who sent His Son to die for you and all the rest of us. Who is getting mighty pissed at the slaughter of His children, and the complicity of idiots who will stand the BoR on its head so it reads they whay they want it to.
Because it's the same argument that morons like you always resort to. Everything that the principal stated is true, and amoral swine?s who press for their divisive morally repugnant life style ie. homosexual, claim their rights are being violated, well guess what sparky their self-determining (not to mention life-ending) free-will choice to go against nature ie the rectum is an output not an intake orifice, determine that they will assume room temperature at a expiated rate. You are wrong as usual but it is expected from psuedo-intellectuals
"Why is it that you constantly insist that you have the right to practice your religion in public,"
and who the hell are you to say they can't.
Your are as anal as they come.
You think that just becaue you don't like it nobody has the right to do what they please.
Well my ignorant biological unit, the world dosn't revolve around you or your narrow minded head in the muck point of view.
Try rereading this, and this time, pretend that the words mean exactly what they say. For your edification, this is the First Amendment.
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