Posted on 05/03/2015 7:17:12 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
MERIWETHER COUNTY, Ga. -A Meriwether County high school principal claims he was fired after he prayed with a group of students during a volunteer Christian meeting.
Dr. Michael Lehr said he just wants the facts to come out and that he's relying on his faith to get him through this.
News Radio 106.7's Nathalie Pozo spoke with several students and parents who are outraged this happened to what they call a kind, dedicated, well respected man. Now, the community is rallying behind him.
“It is breaking our hearts its breaking our hearts… because it is not supposed to be like this,” one parent said.
Last Wednesday, during a volunteer Fellowship of Christian Athletes meeting, the Manchester High School principal said he filled in for the organization's leader and read scripture as well as prayed with students in attendance.
“Because this is a Christian community and I want my daughter to pray,” said another parent.
Dr. Lehr who did not want to speak on camera said he had his annual evaluation two days later with the county's school superintendent. He says at that meeting, Superintendent Carol Lane put him on indefinite administrative leave for the remainder of his contract which expires in June for leading prayers at the FCA meeting.
“What do you expect at a Christian meeting except prayer and Bible reading,” one parent noted.
“I want prayer in this school. I am proud to see our football team take a knee and pray before and after games. And also in clubs and we're just shocked,” said parent Angila Waddell.
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Really...at a voluntary meeting? These school administrator idiots are running the roost. There’s no free speech in the “land of the free”. What a joke we’re permitting. We don’t have to put up with this.
We all know that a prayer rug, LGBT, American flag burning party would’ve been “free speech”, “freedom of religion” and creative thinking.
People's lives ruined by laws...that's not what the law was intended to do. Someone that won't bake a cake for a fag weddinNOT a criminal. It's absurd.
I guess Americans are making their displeasure known.
http://meriwether.k12.ga.us/departments/office_of_the_meriwether_county_school_system_supe
“This site has been blocked by the network administrator”
Better idea: get a lawyer and sue for wrongful termination. Become rich.
ACCORDING TO LIBIDIOTS AND LEFTIDOTS.
And this is Georgia - the Bible Belt. We need to start fighting back - and hard!
At the rate things are devolving, in 10 years this type of offense will get you a death sentence. The liberals think that things will lurch a little bit to the left and then stop moving and they will be happy, not understanding that there is no stopping the social juggernaut until we are living under communism.
In ten years the liberals and their homo cohorts will be going under the blade.
Was the building they were meeting in paid for and maintained with voluntary taxes? Is his salary paid for by volunteers?
If they had all been down on rugs jibbering about Allah you would have a different opinion about this.
Have the meeting at a church. Why is that so hard?
And you know what kind opinion I would have? You have a mighty high opinion of your abilities, eh?
Mrs. Carol Lane, Superintendent, Meriwether County School System
carol.lane@mcssga.org
706.672.4297 ext 100
When I was in high school (admittedly many years ago), our football coach prayed with the players before and after games and they had masking tape in the shape of a cross on their helmets with “faith” and “pride”. No one complained. Of course, we didn’t have muslims at my school, either.
We also didn’t have “resource officers” or kids arrested for drugs or guns.
Supreme Court Says Religious Clubs Can Meet at Public Schools
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92875&page=1
Therefore!
Begin the process of privatizing K-12 schooling. Vouchers, charters, tax credits, and homeschooling will help to build the private infrastructure. The goal of every conservative should be Complete Separation of School and State.
Christians and conservatives cheer when bibles are handed out but ( recently) Satanists have begun handing out their material and the Christians and conservatives are horrified.
So you think there should be no prayers on public property, huh?
You must also think that teachers who pray with their students in a voluntary meeting of Christian Athletes at school should be fired.
Why are you here on Free Republic?
Poison Pill. That's a good name for you.
“Is his salary paid for by volunteers?”
Was he on his own time when at the meeting?
If the Principle had been a devout Muslim and he and the students were down on prayer rugs bowing to Mecca, praying to Allah and reading from the Koran in a public school, built and maintained by public taxes, would you publicly support his actions and defend his continued employment?
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