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Students Ordered to Stop Praying Outside Supreme Court Building
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Posted on 07/15/2010 7:19:48 PM PDT by 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.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christian; fascist; july; moralabsolutes; obamunism; prayer; supremecourt; whoisjohngalt
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To: Red in Blue PA
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posted on
07/15/2010 7:22:30 PM PDT
by
Genoa
(Titus 2:13)
To: Red in Blue PA
Do we have 15 Freepers in the DC area who would care to go pray in the same spot tomorrow?
To: Red in Blue PA
The government is out of control.
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posted on
07/15/2010 7:22:47 PM PDT
by
muddler
(Obama is either incompetent or malicious, and it makes little difference which.)
To: muddler
It was out of control 18 months ago.
We are in the Twilight Zone now.....
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posted on
07/15/2010 7:23:57 PM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(Anti-Gunners suffer from Factose Intolerance)
To: Red in Blue PA
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.
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posted on
07/15/2010 7:24:14 PM PDT
by
Mere Survival
(The time to fight was yesterday but now will have to do.)
To: Red in Blue PA
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.
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posted on
07/15/2010 7:25:28 PM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: Red in Blue PA
Would the cops have interfered if they had knelt down on prayer rugs facing Mecca?
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posted on
07/15/2010 7:25:28 PM PDT
by
Fiji Hill
To: Red in Blue PA
Government buildings where prayer should be mandatory 24/7 WH, Capital, Supreme Court. Or maybe a good exorcism.
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posted on
07/15/2010 7:25:35 PM PDT
by
whence911
(Here illegally? Go home. Get in line!)
To: Red in Blue PA
The police officer should have been ignored and the kids should have kept praying. Let the media make a big thing about it.
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posted on
07/15/2010 7:26:02 PM PDT
by
RC2
To: Fiji Hill
>>>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.
To: Red in Blue PA
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.
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posted on
07/15/2010 7:29:39 PM PDT
by
Genoa
(Titus 2:13)
To: Red in Blue PA
LAWSUIT CITY
GO FOR IT!!!
To: Red in Blue PA
This is just the typical way capital police treat Christians...
To: Red in Blue PA
Get the Cops name, that person needs reported.
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posted on
07/15/2010 7:31:16 PM PDT
by
Cheetahcat
(Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
To: y'all
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.
?
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posted on
07/15/2010 7:31:23 PM PDT
by
Cyber Ninja
(Rebuke, Renounce, Repeal, Repeat,...)
To: Red in Blue PA
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.
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posted on
07/15/2010 7:31:46 PM PDT
by
sirchtruth
(Freedom is not free)
To: RC2
Let the media make a big thing about it. Yeah. Good luck with that one.
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posted on
07/15/2010 7:32:03 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
(If you cant tell if I'm being sarcastic...maybe I'm not.)
To: 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.And they listened to him or kept praying?
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posted on
07/15/2010 7:33:17 PM PDT
by
gunsequalfreedom
(Conservative is not a label of convenience.)
To: Mere Survival
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.
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posted on
07/15/2010 7:33:44 PM PDT
by
comps4spice
(Obama is a clear and present danger.)
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