School officials face jail time for meal-time prayers

OneNewsNow ^ | Pete Chagnon - OneNewsNow

[gitmo]

Or if they prayed to Obama.

[FreepShop1]

Wealthy Christian and Orthodox Jewish individuals need to join forces and raise a $100 million fund to battle the ACLU in EVERY single anti-prayer case in the U.S. Only massive funds will stop them cold. They CANNOT win in court, only through financial intimidation of small school districts and municipalities.

[narses]

Yep. Sad.

[narses]

Not ‘framers’, the Founding Fathers - male patriarchs, one and all.

[verity]

“...scheduled to go on trial next month on criminal contempt charges...”

[Clintonfatigued]

Just when we thought we’d heard it all, they surprise us. Is the best reason to homeschool to date?

[SunkenCiv]

No really, I mean it this time. I’m going to bed. See you all Thursday, or maybe Friday. :’)

[detective]

Freedom of religion, as guaranteed in the constitution, is being systematically weakened and has almost been eliminated. If they had encouraged young people to engage in homosexual acts that would have been ok. Our freedoms that Americans have fought and died for are being taken away.

[NonValueAdded]

When talking about the writing of the constitution, Framers is more accurate. Founding Fathers is of better use when talking about the founding of our country, including the Signers, and the patriots throughout the war. See Founding Fathers of the United States

And I could argue that the broader category of "fathers" included plenty of females starting with the young lady who tossed down her still warm petticoat to Paul Revere so he and his friends could muffle the oars for their row across the Charles one very special April night in 1775.

But we digress

[Mariner]

As long as there were no kids present, OK.

If there were kids from the school present, the action is righteous.

[Scrambler Bob]

Tell the judge that they will pray while in their jail cell.

That should keep them out.

[skr]

Lunch for adults, not students; are the adults incapable of choosing not to pray or terrified of peer pressure?

[narses]

Why? When did prayer become illegal because kids could hear it?

[Mariner]

It would clearly be illegal if conducted by a teacher or an administrator under the establishment clause...IF it was an official public school function, and children were present.

How would you like teachers leading Friday prayers to Allah?

Private schools can do whatever they please.

[narses]

No free exercise in that odd world of yours? No Grace at a meal, for example?

[dsc]

“It would clearly be illegal if conducted by a teacher or an administrator under the establishment clause...IF it was an official public school function, and children were present.”

That is an incorrect reading of the Constitution. The Constitution forbids congress from messing with religion, but leaves religion free to mess with anybody and everybody.

[Frantzie]

Catholics need to stop bowing to tyrants like Obama, Islam and La Raza.

[myknowledge]

Aand freedom of religion has gone down the gutter, by Christian standards.

Proof that our society is falling into apostasy.

[Jacquerie]

The source of this nonsense is our beloved Supreme Court, the supposed final protector of our rights.

In 1962 Engel v. Vitale prayer in public schools is outlawed in a controversial and dubious decision that is at odds with American history. If there was any doubt that professing one’s faith was no longer a God given right, the 1992 decision Lee v. Wiseman banned high school invocations and benedictions. Justice Kennedy found Constitutional protection for non-believers from “public pressure as well as peer pressure.” Thus, Scotus invented the right to not feel uncomfortable because of public expressions of faith by others.

By such reasoning our Declaration of Independence may not be taught because it contains the phrases, “Laws of Nature and Nature’s God,” and “. . . endowed by their Creator.”

[GiovannaNicoletta]

The more secular we become, the more we force God out of our nation, the more we decay and deteriorate.

When God leaves, something will fill the vacuum. And it ain't anything good.