This article was a little fuzzy, so I’m not sure exactly what happened. I do not think that a public school should be promoting religion. On the flip side, if someone wants to pray they should have that right. In particular, and I don’t know if it happened in this case, it is ridiculous that a kid giving a speech during graduation can’t say a prayer if they want to. What happened to their free speech?

I try to admire the ACLU for their work, but in cases like this they tend to go overboard in prohibiting any mention of prayer or God. Again, the school should not promote it, but a spontaneous prayer by someone should be covered free speech, not banned. There’s an amendment for freedom of religion too you know. Just because free speech is the first amendment doesn’t make it more important than the others…

There is a Second Amendment that the ACLU won’t support either.

Actually, Tim, the First Amendment includes the following freedoms:

Speech, Press, Religion, and Peaceable Assembly.

It appears that what really happened here is that the District was shading the line that has been repeatedly drawn. As in: A STUDENT led prayer at graduation is OK; a Baccalaureate service is OK, if it’s planned and run by a church group and attendance is voluntary; A student is free to pray over his lunch.

I can’t wait for the Fundamentalist spin on this. Followed closely by the Christian Nation chant.

Hilarious. What happened to tolerance? Nobody says you have to believe what that dude is praying? Hilarious. Yet many other viewpoints (which COULD be a matter of opinion—just about as much as religion is) are given out as a free ride and no argument is made or fuss because Christians fear being labeled some ridiculous unjust human being. Hilarious. And people don’t believe there is a Keyser Soze out there deceiving us, Christians and Non-Christians alike. Think about it. If there is a Devil, who would he be trying to discredit? Who is his #1 enemy and who does he want to slowly weed out of people’s minds, heart, and lives (the slower the better that way people won’t notice, generation to generation)?

“Among the First Amendment violations listed in the ACLU suit:

n Elementary graduations and middle school Christmas concerts held at churches.

n Teachers and staff at Pace High School preaching about “Judgment Day with the Lord.”

n Teachers and staff offering Bible readings and biblical interpretations during student meetings.”

As reported, it appears to be an appropriate ruling.

Covertly manipulating faith into the public education environment is not the call of Christianity. While the ACLU and the government got it right, why can’t the faithful?

If you want a religious education go to a private school. I do not want to have conversations at my school with the administration or the PTA about a religious curriculim in my children’s public school education. I have that conversation in the church of my choosing. It’s hard enough to get a consensus on the 3 R’s.

Oppression is not the Lord’s work!

Check out the Taliban if you want to see how well it works.

This is a lot simpler than what is right or what is freedom. It just doesn’t work.

I will not give authority to the government to speak my faith. This is a freedom that is too precious to me.

It is not my freedom to speak that is the issue here, but my freedom to restrict my government.

“You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above.”

some guy

A declaration of forgiveness, and acknowledgment of one’s own cause in his fate.

It is also for those in the crowd who manipulated the government into the matters of the church.

I have an issue with the headline. Anthony Bradley uses the word “purge” but wouldn’t “remove” be a better choice since it is more neutral? (While purge has a negative conotation.)

In addition, it wasn’t the ACLU who won but the students. (And that’s per your article from Florida)

Second only to going on a ’snipe hunt’ is search for an ACLU suit that does not fit into their decidedly liberal agenda, i.e. gun rights? Never. Just like trying to find a NARAL fight for a conservative woman victim. Folks, these are not ’rights group’ , they are political activists.