Posted on 05/26/2006 12:02:02 PM PDT by sageb1
American Muslim News Briefs
Thursday, May 25, 2006
KY: High School Prayer Axed After Muslim Complaint
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
SHELBYVILLE - The principal of Shelby County High School said the school will not have formal prayer at graduation exercises next month after receiving a complaint from a student and the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky.
Principal Gary Kidwell met Monday with the Board of Education and a lawyer as residents held a prayer vigil outside. Tuesday, Kidwell said the school will break from the tradition of student-led invocations and benedictions at graduation June 2.
The school "will be compliant with the law and also provide a respectful and dignified program for all students," he said.
Traditional prayers at a school banquet and an awards ceremony also will not be held, he said.
Last week, a court ordered a Russell County High School student who had been designated to pray at graduation not to do so. Students rose on their own and recited the Lord's Prayer during the principal's remarks. The student who had been designated to lead the prayer included religious messages in her remarks to graduates.
Arshiya Saiyed, 17, who is Muslim, identified herself Tuesday as the Shelby County student who filed the ACLU complaint. She said other students share her view, a contention echoed by Kidwell.
Arshiya said she understands that student speakers at Shelby County also might include a prayer in their remarks, but she hopes they will respect her objections to the formal prayer.
What part of "free exercise of religion" does the ACLU not understand?
ACLU = Anti-Christ Lawyer's Union
Typo? Freudian slip? Neither. It's the truth.
Illegals, Muslims, the ACLU. The takeover has begun!
PING
Here she is.
Let them Pray! Let them Pray!
It's already allowed in Dearborn, Mich. Your argument isn't needed to get the call to prayer allowed.
I was afraid of that. I knew they'd been asking. Didn't know the results of the request.
""This is not an immigration bill problem. Not wanting prayer at school graduations has been going on for decades.""
Destroying america's christian heritage will increase dramatically with more immigrants..
and if you think this poor little Muzzie only wants to uphold the supreme courts 1962 prayer in school ruling , youre a fool
That is a wonderful idea, and quiet conservative, in the traditional sense.
Less state action. Makes me happy on many levels.
Close enough.
I fear my post to you sounded abrupt. I did not mean it that way and apologize.
During his speech, he Invoked the Name of Jesus multiple times, and it never even occured to me how alien that might be to some...and THAT is a shame.
no problem ;) I didn't take it that way.
They claim to revere Jesus as a prophet, but preach against the beliefs of those who follow Him. Their inability to understand the Trinity causes them to call Christians polytheists. They claim to tolerate Christianity and Judaism, but their tolerance is a hypocritical one. America is not based on Islamic principles, nor is islam even compatible with democracy.
As I have said before here, Thomas Jefferson, whose fear of the Catholic Church caused him to make a speech about separation of church and state, was proven wrong about the Church. But, if he had known about islam, he would have made sure the actual phrase "separation of church and state" written into the Constitution. For islam and all it stands for is precisely what he most feared and hated.
They're good folks down that part of the state...
This is just wrong! How can one person stop something many others want? What is happening to our freedom in this nation? The judges must be put in their place! ENOUGH!!!!!
Thanks for the info. I read at Spencer's frequently (even post sometimes). I must have missed it.
By the way, in re: call to prayer, I wonder what would happen if all Christian churches started ringing their bells 5X a day? ;)
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