Comments on: ACLU Sues Santa Rosa Over Prayer; Seeks Records From Escambia Schools

By: kater

kater — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:04:25 +0000

Unless you’re a student in a parochial school, you’re not there to learn one iota about religion. You want everyone else to just go along with your fantasy, and even want us to endorse your fantasy play in school. Get over yourselves. Your right to your freedom to express your religion ends when you step over the threshold of a public institution. Keep your religion out of the schools or anything else the general public pays taxes for.

By: Tom Lavin

Tom Lavin — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:20:16 +0000

Precedent has been set already at the highest levels of U.S. Government where prayers are said, religious pictures and sayings are written and imprinted in the walls and on the grounds of our very highest Government buildings and documents and our national motto contain references and homage to a religious being. Why cannot the proletariat invoke God’s name? The reason for our plight is that the bourgeious and the country’s newly found Marxist/Socialistic/Atheistic leaders oppose God, Jesus the Bible and all Christians religion. It’s about time we adults take back control of those who are supposed to be working for us in Government. Cleaning house might be the only way, even if the baby goes out with the bathwater. Take a lesson from Mexico who just fired all of their customs officials because they did not know which ones were corrupt in the drug and guns smuggling. Keep the polls moving into the negative numbers for BO and keep up the opposition to the demoncrats and the RINOS.

By: Kenny Shivers

Kenny Shivers — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:48:12 +0000

There were some comments made about Muslims taking over our country and forcing their prayers upon our children in school. First of all, God has not given us a spirit of fear. But the reality of the world we live in today is that many will vote for a man that has “57″ states. Regardless, our God is REAL and prayers to Him are real, whether silent or spoken aloud. Our country was founded upon faith in God. Our forefathers never intended for prayer to be barred from our schools. God save America.

By: Carolyn White

Carolyn White — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:16:29 +0000

If you will remember several years ago, the same issues were brought up at Crestview High. I am sure the records of that action are still available through the court system. A review of the procedures and actions of that suit may provide an insight into how to proceed with trying to fight the suit brought this year. I wish I knew the exact date. I will certainly pray that the Christians in our community will unite and defeat these internal enemies. Even the lady who originally brought the suit to have prayer banned from all schools so many years ago, repented and is now a believing Christian. I have read where she is so very sorry for what she brought about. Surely it is not too late to change this nation back to a Christian nation.

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:20:15 +0000

I don’t know all the details surrounding this case, but when considering that Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world AND in the U.S., do we as Christians really want to tear down any legal protection for freedom of religion? Imagine the day, and it may not be that far away, when muslims make up the majority in a community, and the school principal is a muslim, and the superintendent is a muslim. And the school broadcasts muslim prayers over the PA system. And we as Christians have fought for their right to do so. What are we going to say then and how are we going to feel as our children are subjected to these muslim prayers? What are we going to tell our children or grandchildren? Just don’t pay any attention? Just don’t bow your head while they’re doing that? NO – we would be outraged that our children were forced to be subjected to these prayers that conflict with our religious beliefs at a public school where our children are forced to attend and that our tax money pays for.

Many will likely say that’s why we do need prayer in schools – to help maintain a Christian majority so that doesn’t happen. Of course kids should have the freedom to pray at student led events like FCA, but I think we have to consider every such situation as if it were a prayer of another religion and how we’d feel then. Not because we’re afraid of stepping on anyone’s toes, but because those toes may be ours in the future. We as Christians have the duty to go out and make disciples of all nations. But I do not believe this is necessarily best done by public prayer at official school events. WE need to be praying with OUR kids. In the morning before dropping them off at school and at night before sending them to bed, ingraining in them our principles and teaching them scripture. Then they will be enabled to go out and complete the great commission, not because they listened to the principal pray, but because they themselves pray.

By: E'Beth Lambert-Watts

E'Beth Lambert-Watts — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:37:36 +0000

Why should the freedom of the majority be eliminated for the freedom of 2 and a group who obviously have no independent identify and thus take on that of any non-Christian? If one doesn’t want to pray the simple and most independent and mature way to exercise your freedom is to simply not pray. Your choice and freedom do not give you the right to take the choice and freedom from another.

The ACLU has wasted more tax dollars abusing the purpose of our court and legal system and in their so called effort to represent the rights of others they waste the time of our judicial system, the monies of the localities, and take away the rights of others.

ACLU, the 60’s are over…take on some ecological freedom cause! If the A truly stands for American, consider ALL Americans. You don’t seem to represent all equally or fairly.

By: Dee

Dee — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:16:20 +0000

Again, 2 people are the reason that the suit is happening, give me a break, what about the rights of the people that want to pray, if they do not want to pray fine then don’t .
I am so frustrated that our government will take these cases on when our entire country was based on what is in the comandments have you read the constitution lately people.
Stand up and start fighting back !! When they try and take it we need to file our own claims that we want prayer back ,there would be alot more people for it than against it . “STAND UP FOR GOD ” !!!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:24:23 +0000

You talk about our rights being taken away from us, just put a Muslin in the White HOuse and see where our county will be…………the American people need to wake-up and take a stand or we will not have any rights. When I was in school, there was scripture reading and prayer every morning before class began. Lord knows most of the kids in school today need to say a prayer to get them through the day and most would not think anything about pray in the school. All of this is probably being brought on by their parents! I would not want to walk in those individual’s shoes, God will have a way of dealing with them.

By: Mel

Mel — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:24:47 +0000

If you are not comfortable with praying, don’t pray. It is not fair to take that privelege away from the majority. How can you ask us to respect you when you blatantly refuse to respect us. We are not insisting you pray with us, don’t insist that we do not pray with you!!

By: Anna Thornton

Anna Thornton — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:50:00 +0000

I am so thankful that God listens to our prayers and we get to keep asking Him to come and help and strengthen our Teachers and children . I am so grateful that no person on earth can take that priviledge away from us and we can pray silently if need be ……..as long as we pray and keep praying in the name of Jesus Christ our prayers are heard by the only true GOD .
Let us pray for those who object and who do not understand the priviledge of prayer and the God who created them for Himself .
I am so amazed by the grace and mercy of God and as long as we humble ourselves and turn from our wicked ways and repent and turn to our merciful God who is compassionate and after all we are but DUST ….HE will help us in our time of need and we need GOD’S Grace and Mercy and WORD in our lives and those around us and HE said ask seek knock