Trump updates school prayer guidance: 'We will uphold religious liberty'

Fox News ^ | January 16 2020 | Tyler Olson

[knighthawk]

As his impeachment trial was getting underway in the Senate, President Trump gave a hat tip Thursday to his evangelical base by updating the federal guidance on prayer in public schools — an action that came on National Religious Freedom Day.

The order is similar to a 2003 guidance on school prayer, but it establishes a state-mandated filing process for complaints against local schools and school districts.

States must then send the federal government a list each year of local schools and districts that have "a policy that prevents, or otherwise denies participation in, constitutionally protected prayer," in public schools. States are also required to report local schools that do not certify to the state that they don't have unconstitutional prayer policies.

[Kazan]

There is a point of no return where one becomes so wicked, God’s love expires and the person is lost forever. Such types included several in the Bible that God struck down.

[polymuser]

Paging Betsy DeVos...

Paging Betsy DeVos...

Betsy DeVos, are you in the building?

[Aquamarine]

“The White House isn’t saying whether one should pray or to whom or what they should pray to,” Moore said. He added that “they are simply making it clear that in the United States students have First Amendment rights also, and our `separation of church and state’ wasn’t intended to suppress a vibrant religious life in America but to facilitate it.”

First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; 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

[napscoordinator]

This is good but I can see Muslims taking full advantage.

[b4me]

sure, but so can christians, if they so choose.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Christianity is the only faith that has made America what she is today. It did not come from Rome, or Mecca, or India, or any place besides Jerusalem and it’s founder was not Constantine, Buddha, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Mary Baker Eddy, Judge Rutherford or any one other than Jesus Christ.

Prayer in the schools will cause more harm than good if it is led by the local RCC priest, a sikh, an imam, or any other person than a blood-bought child of God whose faith is founded and grounded in the word of God.

Sadly, this is one act from President Trump that I cannot support.

[SharpRightTurn]

“States must then send the federal government a list each year of local schools and districts that have “a policy that prevents, or otherwise denies participation in, constitutionally protected prayer,” in public schools. States are also required to report local schools that do not certify to the state that they don’t have unconstitutional prayer policies.”

Thank you, Mr. President.

Oh, and please remind Atty. Gen. Barr to come down on any schools who deny the right to pray like a ton of bricks, withholding all federal monies and suing them for punitive amounts of money.

[magna carta]

That will indeed happen there needs to be an asterisk which elaborates on prayer causing undue disruption to the educational process or special dietary needs being forced on others

[cowboyusa]

Pharaoh, and some of the Pharisees. I think most of the media is at this stage.

[cowboyusa]

Pharaoh, and some of the Pharisees. I think most of the media is at this stage.

[cowboyusa]

Pharaoh, and some of the Pharisees. I think most of the media is at this stage.