Posted on 09/26/2019 10:29:41 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
A national organization says South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is violating the Constitution by holding prayers before press conferences.
News outlets report the Freedom From Religion Foundation sent a letter to the governor’s office concerning two prayers earlier this month before press conferences regarding Hurricane Dorian.
Foundation attorney Ryan Jayne says the practice violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment, which prohibits government from favoring one religion over others.
A spokesperson for the governor, Brian Symmes, says as long as McMaster is governor and the state has to prepare for dangerous storms, there will be a chaplain saying prayers before press conferences.
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[[A national organization says South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is violating the Constitution by holding prayers before press conferences.]]
For crying out loud- this has been tried and tried and I believe even SC has weighed in- it’s allowed!
Wow! What a disgrace.
the Freedom From Religion Foundation <<<
is that a typo that meant to say..”freedom OF religion”???
They love to site one half of the 1st Amendment... no establishment of religion—even though they bastardize the concept. What about the governor’s right to the second half... free exercise of HIS religious beliefs?
Annie Laurie Gaylor.
Believe there is a Hell if for no other reason than to hope she ends up there.
Why would you tbink that?
Tell them to go to hell.
Ah yes - the FFRR that NEVER sues when islamists force prayers or demand prayer rooms in schools or Democrats for that matter
Just Christians get sued.
I was tbinking maybe it had something to do with the
1st Amendment......
Already, things that only a few year ago were unthinkable, today are considered acceptable, e.g. infanticide, sexual perversion, government corruption, voter fraud, pornography, illegal immigration, satanism, witchcraft, the sale of drugs is every American city and town and even in the nation's grammar schools.
And now: outlawing prayer!
How depraved can one get?
There is no limit.
What depravation is yet to come? Slavery? Torture for public entertainment? The molestation of children? Genocide? The gulags?
President Trump and his supporters believe that America has not yet passed the point of no return, that she can be saved from destruction, that the decadence can be halted and reversed.
Pray that they are right!
Pray that goodness, truth, and decency will prevail.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
The First Amendment (1A) actually reads as follows.
"1st Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof [emphasis added]; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
SHOW ME a law that Congress has made which respects or prohibits religion, and I’ll show you a violation of the First Amendment.
Note that the corrupt, anti-religious expression Congress has gotten around its 1A prohibition on making laws that prohibit the free exercise of religion by letting institutionally indoctrinated, anti-religious expression judges getting away with legislating such laws from the bench imo.
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)
Laura Ingraham: "Make America Greater!"
Oh, no. It’s the atheist daughter of a horrible atheist woman who we can only hope is spending eternity in the Ted Kennedy Wing, who want to eliminate religion from all public places.
Sorry, but the establishment clause does not eliminate the right for governors or others to pray in public.
The government is not establishing or promoting a religion. They are simply praying to God, something every religion does.
Anyone not wanting to see this, is free to leave with no penalty.
Tell them to go to he!! now rather than waiting until later.
Unless he is having people arrested for not praying along with him, there is no problem here. We all have the freedom of our religion, EVEN elected officials.
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