Sunday, October 13, 2013



ACLU Warning: Don't Pray before you Play Football

The American Civil Liberties Union instructed Tennessee superintendents to end prayer before public high school football games in order to protect “religious freedom for all your students, including your athletes, and their families who attend the games.”

More than 130 administrators received a letter from Tennessee ACLU Executive Director Hedy M. Weinberg chiding them for sponsoring prayer at the football games:

 “As you know, the First Amendment prohibits government policies and practices“respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Both the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause operate to protect the religious liberty and freedom of conscience of all Americans. It is well settled that school faculty, coaches, administrators or invited clergy may not lead students in prayer or conduct a prayer during a school event.”

The ACLU claimed the state may neither promote nor prohibit religious exercise. Instead, it must remain neutral.

Not to worry though, ACLU’s Weinberg is all about preserving freedom:

 “Like you, we want to preserve the sanctity of everyone’s religious freedom, including their ability to choose whether and when to pray. Like you, we do not want to see taxpayers, students and parents in your school district ostracized and excluded if they do not wish to participate in unconstitutional, state-endorsed prayer at athletic events.

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Why does public prayer "exclude" anyone?  Nobody compels you to join in.  Lots of people do things that I don't do but I don't see that I am "excluded" thereby.  I do my own things.



12 comments:

Anonymous said...

There was a good reason the ACLU was created by members of the Communist Party. Communism can not flourish where religion exists.

Anonymous said...

Prayer is silly, but if it makes them feel, let them do it !

Anonymous said...

Left out the word good

Anonymous said...

People should not be put under some form of social pressure in a situation otherwise unrelated to religion (such as a sport) to conform to praying according to one or any form of religion.
But what a primitive religion to think that a divinity that created the whole universe would be swayed by some pathetic prayer to alter natural law to allow one side in a sports team to win, or even to help them perform better than they might have ("primitive" being the operative word here!).

Anonymous said...

God hates YOUR team. He only loves your opponent. Praying is futile. Resistance is futile.

Anonymous said...

You will be assimilated !

Anonymous said...

So, we are protecting “religious freedom for all your students, including your athletes, and their families who attend the games” by preventing religious freedom. What convoluted logic got us to this point?

Anonymous said...

in other words, don't practice your freedom of expression before games. ACLU is a puzzling enigma

Anonymous said...

Have it be student lead and force the ACLU to sue to have government officials force students to stop praying. See how well that goes over in court.

Stefan v said...

Congress may not make laws prohibiting religion or promoting it, but just about everyone else will. Of course, the only one actually prohibited is Biblical Christianity, and the Most Favoured Faiths being forced on people are atheism, humanism, and that peaceful one that's in the news a lot these days.

Anonymous said...

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
- Robert Heinlein

So according to the ACLU in order to be "inclusive" we have to do what the minority wants?

80-85% of the country professes to be of the christian religion but we are being "inclusive" to EXCLUDE them?

With the first link, a chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied --chains us all irrevocably.

Anonymous said...

I bet they would never have done this against a muslim...