ACLU: Respect for Prayer “Tragic”
Posted by libertyminnie on October 16, 2007
Liberty Minnie has just heard about the case where a high school football coach got in trouble for bowing his head while the members of the football team prayed. In the old days, atheists and other non-believers bowed their head during a prayer out of politeness.
Politeness is dead, and the ACLU reportedly called the event ‘tragic’.
Of course, according to the First Amendment, there is such a thing as freedom of speech, and coaches have the right to actually pray if they want to. There has never been an amendment to the Constitution restricting the right of free Americans to pray. Illegal high court rulings don’t change this.
Also, the First Amendment forbids the government to establish one religion over another as the official religion/denomination of our Christian nation. Current practices in the schools, such as forbidding Christian prayer or viewpoints while insisting on the promotion of the atheist religion, violate this.
Maybe it’s time to start learning our constitutional rights: Below is the text of the First Amendment. Memorize it!
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.
