Christians Could be Sent to Jail for Praying in School - (ACLU demands incarceration for praying)

CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA.ORG ^ | JUNE 9, 2005 | EDITORS

[little jeremiah]

I'm sorry to say it, but your comments seem meant to disrupt.

[Doe Eyes]

I'm sorry that Biblical passages disturb you.

[DocRock]

Our first law in this land regarding public education was to teach kids to read the Bible.

Link to PDF Document on Old Deluder Satan Law

[DocRock]

“Chief Justice Rehnquist has said: ‘It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of constitutional history, but unfortunately the Establishment Clause has been expressly freighted with Jefferson’s misleading metaphor for nearly 40 years.’”

In Zorach v. Clausen, (343 U.S. 306), Justice William O. Douglas, one of the most atheistic, anti religious Supreme Court Justices, wrote the following:

"The First Amendment... does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rather, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on the other. That is the common sense of the matter. Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other - hostile, suspicious, and even unfriendly... Municipalities would not be permitted to render police or fire protection to religious groups. Policemen who helped parishioners into their places of worship would violate the Constitution. Prayers in our legislative halls; the appeals to the Almighty in the messages of the Chief Executive; the proclamation making Thanksgiving Day a holiday; "so help me God" in our courtroom oaths - these and all other references to the Almighty that run through our laws, our public rituals, our ceremonies, would be flouting the First Amendment. A fastidious atheist or agnostic could even object to the supplication with which the Court opens each session: "God save the United States and this Honorable Court".

[little jeremiah]

As I said, it seems that your comments are meant to be disruptive.

I am perfectly willing to engage in a discussion about what Jesus meant, whether people praying or worshipping in houses of worship are going against his instructions, and whether people praying publicly are going against his instructions.

But you just want to bait and switch. Your free will at work.

[jamaly]

Bump for later.

[Doe Eyes]

As I said, it seems that your comments are meant to be disruptive. I am perfectly willing to engage in a discussion about what Jesus meant, whether people praying or worshipping in houses of worship are going against his instructions, and whether people praying publicly are going against his instructions. But you just want to bait and switch. Your free will at work.

I have fairly responded to you, yet you refuse to respond to me.

It seems you are the disruptor.

[little jeremiah]

Free will at work.

[Goodgirlinred]

I don't know why anyone listens to the ACLU anyway. I am very upset about that teacher in Louisiana who brought that suit. She was a student teacher at the time. FOX did not make it clear what her problem was. She said in the interview that the teacher had her stop the lesson she was getting ready to teach long enough for a student to get up and pray out loud for one of the teacher's friends who was ill. That is, I believe, a small community. What was the problem? If the student had no problem with it, why did the student teacher?

[EdReform]

Ping

[Erik Latranyi]

Guantanamo would be acceptable for Christians, not terrorists.

You're a troll and will never come back, right?

No, I'm making a joke and you didn't get it!

[Mark17]

The ACLU needs to go.

I am not 100% sure, but wasn't the ACLU originally founded to defend communists from the government? I thought I heard that somewhere.

[CarlEOlsoniii]

the aclu was actual once a respected private organization in the early, mid 20th century. But then someone other than the founder took over, and he turned it into the public anti-christian army it is now.

[ClancyJ]

Have not read the whole thread but - the ACLU is not the authority of the land. The ACLU is merely one organization using suing others as the tool to destory what they wish to destroy.

And, the ACLU does not tell us who will be arrested. We must stop this group (who get funds from the government for suing the populus-thereby meaning we pay for their assault on our personal liberty.)

I am looking for someone to sue the ACLU over imposing their views on Americans by lawsuit.

We will pray in this country and the ACLU will not fill the prisons with Christians and survive. They better realize they wake a sleeping giant - same as Japan finally realized.

[ClancyJ]

I think Jesus EXPECTS his people to pray whereever they wish as he is the one We follow - not the ones imposing their godless state on us.

We will pray and there will be no interference by government because that is why this country was set up. If you cannot stand that others pray - there are many other countries you would love.

Personally, I expect the ACLU to quit imposing their view on the majority of Americans at my expense both in tax dollars to support them and tax dollars to pay the lawyers to fight them.

[dannyboy72]

Now don't start picking on women of a certain age just because one happens to be a pain in the A**!

Sorry it took me so long to respond, but... touchette. You have my apologies, and the car bumper who lost its sheen to give Nancy that new face has my sympathies as well.

[Mark17]

he turned it into the public anti-christian army it is now.

Thanks for the info.

[Goodgirlinred]

HOWL! OK, well, you better say something nice, like you think women are more beautiful as they mature because they lose that doughy look and take on a look of character, wisdom, humor, and "that certain attraction". ;)

[claude70454]

well than can just put me in jail my family will pray any time and any were we like