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Three Florida school employees will go to federal court on September 17 to see if they'll be thrown behind bars. The reason? Prayer. Their school made a deal with the ACLU to stop praying and this ridiculous situation proves that you can't make a deal with the devil.
The Santa Rosa County School District is in an area of northern Florida where people uphold traditional values and customs. One of those customs is the widespread use of prayer at all sorts of public events -- including school events. Then the ACLU came in, filed a federal lawsuit to stop the...
Never Make a Deal With the Devil About Prayer
He says "there is STILL NO LAW AGAINST PRAYING IN PUBLIC. No one has followed this decision to make one."
No one needs to make that law--the Constitution's prohibition against establishing religion is that law.
He goes on "A case by case decision and not a legislative act that takes the rights away of any citizen. The court has no such authority under the US Constitution to deny all citizens speech rights."
The Federal Court didn't deny any citizen speech rights--the "citizens" involved didn't have this right to begin with--the Constitution says they don't.
On the contrary, the Federal Court PROTECTED the rights of the students--that's what this case is...