Of course, the ACLU will never understand this either:
GOD BLESS AMERICA; AMERICA BLESS GOD.
Free Speech is wonderful!!!
Posted on 10/25/2001 1:58:45 PM PDT by jgrubbs
Civil Liberties Groups Cautious of 'Religious Hysteria'
by Andy Butcher
They say 'floodgates have not opened' for public prayer since Sept. 11 attacks
Civil liberties groups are largely turning a deaf ear to public prayers that challenge the law. But they are concerned that some Christians are trying to use the country's greater openness to God since the Sept. 11 attacks to permanently bring faith back into schools and government.
In Greenbrier, Ark., high school football games are being preceded by a public recitation of the Lord's Prayer, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that banned such practices. According to "The Christian Science Monitor," the Greenbrier stand is "perhaps the boldest example of just how pervasive public prayer has become."
Texas Gov. Rick Perry last week prayed with a group of middle schoolers during an assembly and wants to make legalizing school prayer a campaign issue, the newspaper said. "The New York Times" said that a bill is being considered in South Carolina that would turn the moment of silence that starts each school day into a moment of prayer --even though the practice has also been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Meanwhile in Florida, legislators yesterday took time out of a special budget session to pass a bill permitting volunteer student prayer at graduation ceremonies and other non-required student assemblies, the Associated Press said. "This is a time when all people in our nation should be called to prayer," said sponsor Wilbert Holloway, D-Miami.
The "Times" said that after an "outpouring of prayer" as people looked for healing and hope in the aftermath of the terrorist strikes, most public schools have returned to normal routines, reinstating limits on public expressions of faith.
Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said that there had been some more complaints about "inappropriate prayers" in schools in the last six weeks, but "the floodgates have not opened."
However, he did not believe that the courts would reverse earlier decisions on prayer. The new practices being adopted by some in challenge to existing rulings would prove costly to communities forced to defend them, he said, reported the "Times." "The Constitution has not been suspended since Sept. 11," Lynn said.
Anne Nicol Gaylor, president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, said there was currently a level of "religious hysteria" in America, the "Monitor" reported. "You only have to look at history, during times of war, to see how religion attempts to move in on government," she said.
A Muslim prayer has caused a row in Mooresville, Ind. Rafla Syeed, a visiting speaker, said a Muslim prayer and translated it for students when she visited Neil Armstrong Elementary School. Principal Sylvia Graves told "The Indianapolis Star": "It was a short teachable moment. I felt it was an opportunity to show the children that these people are the same as us."
Some parents complained that they had not been told about the visit in advance. "We can't talk about prayer, but they ask these people in and give them full rein," complained one parent, Sherry Pearson.
Schools Harass Christians, Coddle Other Faiths
MUSLIM KIDS GET TO PRAY IN SCHOOL FOR RAMADAN
While we knew the ACLU is after Christians, it is nice to see it made so obvious no one can miss it.
Little twit. It's hysteria if people go back to their churches, synagogues, etc. and get comfort from their faith. Ms. Gaylor needs to be sent to the Middle East after the Islamics finish their prayers. The mullahs get them hot and fiery for allah. Shooting in the air, screaming death to America, Jihad yelling, burning flags. Get a lesson Ms. Gayfool.
16 Be joyful always;
17 pray continually;
18 give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.
19 Do not put out the Spirit's fire;
20 do not treat prophecies with contempt.
21 Test everything. Hold on to the good.
22 Avoid every kind of evil.
23 May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
24 The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it.
25 Brothers, pray for us.
26 Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.
27 I charge you before the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers.
28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
Dear Father God Jesus who has blessed America with so much, please deliver us from the evil ones who are all around us and seek to destroy us and remove your name from our sight. Please guide the faithful few among us to resist the temptation to set idly by while heathens defile your name and the covenants you have given us. Please give us courage and protect us as we resist their immoral songs. In the name of Jesus Christ I pray, Amen.
Maybe it's not religion that tries to move in and take over the government, maybe it's the PEOPLE who think that the Supreme Court and Mr. Lynn are RADICALLY out of touch with the will of the American people.
Maybe the Supremes ought to get out to a high school football game once in a while, or the local bar to have a beer with the real people of this country.
They sit up there like demi-gods, passing judgement on laws that WE have to live under.
SOmeone want to point to the place in the US Constitution where it says that the govt can declare war on religion?
GODspeed
Of course, the ACLU will never understand this either:
GOD BLESS AMERICA; AMERICA BLESS GOD.
Free Speech is wonderful!!!
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