Posted on 01/27/2012 9:39:09 AM PST by lilyramone
A federal judge ruled this month that the prayer's presence at Cranston High School West was unconstitutional, concluding that it violated the principle of government neutrality in religion. In the weeks since, residents have crowded school board meetings to demand an appeal, Jessica has received online threats and the police have escorted her at school, and Cranston, a dense city of 80,000 just south of Providence, has throbbed with raw emotion.
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Ahh...but her application to Harvard is going to be fast-tracked.
>> “Our Heavenly Father, grant us each day the desire to do our best, to grow mentally and morally as well as physically, to be kind and helpful.” It goes on for a few more lines before concluding with “Amen.”
Well, that certainly is offensive enough for me. Off with their heads. /s
When a Democrat doesn't believe in God, they want to outlaw religion.
This is the reason that as long as I have the ability to do it, my children will not see the inside of a public classroom.
What was the prayer? Story is worthless without it.
Really!!?? The whole town "THROBBED"!!??? Did we get a little dramatic in the telling of this story???
http://www.wpri.com/dpp/news/cranston-west-prayer-banner-text-detail
It’s only a matter of time before atheists like Jessica Ahlquist demand:
1) the state not allow Christian Churches on public roads throughout this country because it creates the illusion that the state endorses religion.
2)Demand Churches remove their crosses and silence their bells so not to offend non-believers
3) Cities like St Louis and San Diego change their names because the word Saint endorses a religion.
4) The military remove all Christian Chaplains so not appear to endorse religion.
5) Public College/high school sport programs remove the ‘Hail Mary’ pass from their playbook.
6) Prayer in public will not be allowed anywhere because it might offend non-believers.
7) Christians wear a giant C on the left side of their chest so they can be easily identified and thus publicly shunned.
8) One will not be able to shop at a business owned by a Christian, in the name of FAIRNESS,because it gives the appearance of favoring a religious business over a secular one.
9) Biblical Christian(Lucifer and Judas are exempt) names will no longer be accepted on birth certificates so it does not create the appearance of the state endorsing religion.
10) Islam is exempt from All of the above rules in the name of diversity and as an expression of multiculturalism!
9)
Two issues with all this...
First, there is NO Constitutional demand for ‘neutrality’ regarding religion. The Constituion prohibits the Federal government from establishing a state religion. Nothing more.
Second, there is NO Constitutional requirement or obligation for the Federal government to be involved in education. In fact, since it’s not among the enumerated powers, educational oversight is, by default, reserved to the States or the People.
It is well past time for us to reclaim our nation, and re-assert the Constituion, as written and legally amended, as the primary and LIMITING control on the Federal leviathan.
The prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, grant us each day the desire to do our best, to grow mentally and morally as well as physically, to be kind and helpful to our classmates and teachers, to be honest with ourselves as well as with others. Help us to be good sports and smile when we lose as well as when we win. Teach us the value of true friendship. Help us always to conduct ourselves so as to bring credit to Cranston High School West.
Amen.
It does seem to be rather secular, the only people it might offend would be militant atheists. I don’t see any establishment of religion in it.
Imagine going down in history as the town A44hole.
So she stopped believing in God because her prayers for her sick mother were not answered fast enough?
Not surprising that an atheist would be offended, they are selfcentric and morally vapid.
So she stopped believing in God because her prayers for her sick mother were not answered fast enough?
These judges have Liberal-diseased minds.
They incorrectly conclude that “nuetrality” means “antagonic opposition”.
There is nothing “nuetral” about atagonistic opposition.
True “nuetrality” (on the part of the government) - in terms of “separation of Church and state” - can mean only one thing - the government must be agnostic; and by that I mean it is neither a “believer” or a “non-believer”; it does not set itself as “the representative of” nor does it set itself as “the opponent of”; it neither prescribes nor proscribes; it neither demands a relisious sentiment of its chosing nor prohibits a religious sentiment the people have elected, agreed, allowed to be given.
The idiots judges do not mandate “separation of church and state”, they demand that only the church of secular humanism, the chosen church of the state (in the judge’s view), be heard.
In other words, if it were “neutral” then it would stay out of the choices “we the people make” in terms of our religious sentiments, even when we express them in a government owned facility in a public event.
“We the people” have all the Liberty and all the “freedom from oppression” we require to either appreciate the message, ignore the message, or remove ourselves from hearing the message, as we choose, without the U.S. Federal government telling us what we ought to have done, which from the idiot judges’ point of view, is we all should have, in the manner of extreme national unity of one mind, attacked the message. That is what their view of “neutrality” means.
Oh, so it’s not that she doesn’t believe in God, it is because He didn’t do what she commanded Him to do in her time. So she is just pissed that God isn’t a Genni.
Do they study the Declaration of Independence at this school?
I thought when they did this they wanted attention? I guess she thought they would love her for forcing her beliefs down the majorities throat?If it bothered you just don’t read it....
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