Students Ordered to Stop Praying Outside Supreme Court Building

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/15/students-ordered-stop-praying-outside-supreme-court-building/?test=latestnews ^

[Red in Blue PA]

A group of Christian students was ordered to stop praying outside the U.S. Supreme Court building on May 5 because a court police officer told them it was against the law.

The students were part of a junior high school American History class at Wickenburg Christian Academy in Arizona. After taking pictures on the steps of the Supreme Court building, their teacher gathered them to a side location where they formed a circle and began to pray.

According to Nate Kellum, senior counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, a police officer “abruptly” interrupted the prayer and ordered the group to cease and desist.

“They were told to stop praying because they were violating the law and they had to take their prayer elsewhere,” Kellum told FOX News Radio.

[Genoa]

Wow!

[sand lake bar]

Do we have 15 Freepers in the DC area who would care to go pray in the same spot tomorrow?

[muddler]

The government is out of control.

[Red in Blue PA]

It was out of control 18 months ago.

We are in the Twilight Zone now.....

[Mere Survival]

Sigh. I can understand that there are stupid policemen. What’s sad is that the atmosphere in the country is such that the stupid would think that it’s against the law to pray on government property.

[Da Coyote]

Pray anyway. If they get arrested, they should insist for the “libtard” treatment - e.g., they get released with no charges.

Hey, it worked for the Black libtard idiot sleazebag soon to be sliced, diced, and disposed of Black B*st-—oops, Panthers.

[Fiji Hill]

Would the cops have interfered if they had knelt down on prayer rugs facing Mecca?

[whence911]

Government buildings where prayer should be mandatory 24/7 WH, Capital, Supreme Court. Or maybe a good exorcism.

[RC2]

The police officer should have been ignored and the kids should have kept praying. Let the media make a big thing about it.

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>Would the cops have interfered if they had knelt down on prayer rugs facing Mecca?

They’d call NASA to assure they were indeed facing in the proper direction.

[Genoa]

Some federal security in D.C. are long on zeal and short on sense.
I remember the time I was at the National Archives a few years ago, and someone was trying to take a photograph of the original Bill of Rights through the glass. The uniformed security cop (a chubby black lady, looked to be about 25 or so) stepped up to him and said, "No pictures!"
He replied, "There's no flash! The sign says No Flash Pictures."
She repeated, louder, "No pictures!"
He didn't get his picture.

[A_Former_Democrat]

LAWSUIT CITY

GO FOR IT!!!

[Notasoccermom]

This is just the typical way capital police treat Christians...

[Cheetahcat]

Get the Cops name, that person needs reported.

[Cyber Ninja]

I’ve watch a lot of people “praying” in my time.

I never really knew if they were really praying,
or just thinking about the horses they would be
betting on later.

God knew.

And, now it looks like the government can tell.

?

[sirchtruth]

This is starting to get serious now. It has almost come to a point where it becomes a very dangerous road. You can not prevent people from praying. You just can not infringe on the their right of free speech and freedom of religion.

I would say people better start preparing for war because this is a direct infringement of a constitutional right! As is telling people the can't pray on public street corners, or praying during school sporting events.

[Delta 21]

Let the media make a big thing about it.

Yeah. Good luck with that one.

[gunsequalfreedom]

A group of Christian students was ordered to stop praying outside the U.S. Supreme Court building on May 5 because a court police officer told them it was against the law.

And they listened to him or kept praying?

[comps4spice]

Needless to say had this been a group of Muslims they likely would not have faced the same persecution—the D C cops might even have joined a Muslim prayer time.