Saturday, August 15, 2009

ACLU Has a Big Mouth

Hey:
I found this awful story at foxnews.com

A principal and an athletic director in Florida could be charged with crimes and spend six months in jail after they prayed before a meal at a school event, the Washington Times reported.
Pace High School Principal Frank Lay and athletic director Robert Freeman will go on trial in federal district court Sept. 17. They're accused of violating the conditions of a lawsuit settlement reached last year with the
American Civil Liberties Union, according to the Times.
Local pastors and some students and teachers are outraged that Lay and Freeman face criminal charges, and they have protested during graduation ceremonies, the newspaper said.
"I have been defending religious freedom issues for 22 years, and I've never had to defend somebody who has been charged criminally for praying," said Mathew Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, the Christian-based legal group that is defending the two school officials.
But an ACLU official said the Santa Rosa County School District has been guilty of "flagrant"
First Amendment violations for years, the Times reported.
"The defendants all admitted wrongdoing," said Daniel Mach, ACLU's director of
litigation for its freedom of religion program. "For example, the Pace High School teachers handbook asks teachers to 'embrace every opportunity to inculcate, by precept and example, the practice of every Christian virtue.'"
The case stems from a Jan. 28 incident in which Lay, a local Baptist church deacon, asked Freeman to offer mealtime prayers at a lunch for school employees. Staver said no students were there and the event took place on school property after hours.
Mach countered that the event was held during the school day and Lay has admitted in writing that there were students present, according to the newspaper.
The ACLU contends that the allowance of the lunchtime prayer was a breach of last year's settlement, in which the district promised, among other things, to prohibit all school employees from promoting prayers during school-sponsored events, espousing their religious beliefs and trying to convert students.


That is just utterly ridiculous! The ACLU has too much say-so in instances like this. They have no business getting all huffy because somebody was *gasp* praying. Now, of course, if the principal and athletic director were reading the Qur'an then they would have been awarded for trying to encourage Muslim faith. Which, in my mind, is just amazing they can favor something less believeable over something their ancestors based their whole lives upon! Yeah, read Little House on the Prairie, I don't remember Laura and Mary wearing Burkas and their father beating their mother...do you? Hey, it's the truth.
Everytime someone says something with God in it, the ACLU's all "Oh, no that's offensive, it's ruining our country blah-blah-blah."
This situation in Florida isn't being helped by Dearest Mr. Obama, is it? Wasn't he the one who declared that the United States "isn't a Christian nation anymore?" I thought so.
Yeah, we're obviously not a Christian nation, even though driving around town and stuff I see churches and Christian bookstores more often then I see Muslim Shrines and whatnot.
But, hey, we must embrace all religions, right, ACLU? Well, except those big, awful Christians, of course. ;-)

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