Posted on 08/11/2009 7:42:52 PM PDT by narses
A principal and an athletic director are facing criminal charges for a lunch-time prayer. Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against Pace High School in Santa Rosa County, Florida. The ACLU claimed some teachers and administrators were endorsing religion, but the school chose to give in to the ACLU's demands rather than fight them in court. According to the settlement, all school employees are banned from engaging in prayer or religious activities before, during, or after school hours. Now two school officials are facing criminal charges for offering meal-time prayers at an appreciation dinner for adults who had helped with a school field house project. Principal Frank Lay and athletic director Robert Freeman are scheduled to go on trial next month on criminal contempt charges. If convicted, both are subject to fines and imprisonment. Matt Staver is founder of Liberty Counsel, which will argue the court order prohibiting prayer at school-related events violated Lay's and Freeman's constitutional rights. "In this particular case, Principal Frank Lay asked the athletic director to have a prayer for the meal at an honorary luncheon in celebration for some of the athletic achievements. And then in [another] situation, the clerical worker at an event where some employees of the school were present asked her husband, who is not an employee of the school, to have a blessing over a meal," he explains. "Because of those two events, these individuals now face criminal contempt." Staver believes that the accusers in this case are students who recently graduated. If that is the case, he says the case is moot. However, Staver adds it is outrageous to punish a school official with potential jail time for simply praying.
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Going to jail for praying? Do you think this will be appealed SCOTUS?
But I’m sure if they prayed to Allah while facing Mecca it would be OK.
The wise (wide?) Latina would rule against them.
It would be an interesting case, but I don’t know how things progress to that point.
Well, yeah.
Pray to God -> Go to jail
Apparently we are one nation under separate from God!
Prayer is speech
There are public schools in some states with prayer rooms for muslim students
IMHO Atheism is a form of religion - the extreme end of a belief spectrum - and I for one am sick and tired of having to practice their belief that there be absolutely no use of the "G" word when we the people are peaceably assembled in a public building. The gubermint is de facto establishing Atheism as the State Religion.
That’s what I think. I hope this judge gets slapped down.
Did these teachers and administrators try to form a National Church of America or what?
i’m getting pretty tired of this crap, myself.
UK Catholic schools opening muslim prayer rooms!!
Simon Caldwell, Daily Mail (London), Dec. 1, 2008
Muslim prayer rooms should be opened in every Roman Catholic school, church leaders have said.
The Catholic bishops of England and Wales also want facilities in schools for Islamic pre-prayer washing rituals.
The demands go way beyond legal requirements on catering for religious minorities.
But the bishops—who acknowledge 30 per cent of pupils at their schools hold a non-Christian faith—want to answer critics who say religious schools sow division.
And they’ll change the class schedule to accommodate it.
ACLU vermin scum of the lowest order would muzzle the very mouth of God if it could. Fortunately it works the other way around when the final curtains fall.
That is permissible under international Islamic Law.
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