High school students recite prayer without approval, 9/11 ensues

[Ballygrl]

My my, the gigantic primitive seems especially bitter in that post.

One wonders if there's a reason for it, but never mind.

One can guess; the lost pounds have been added on again.

Welcome back frank, I missed ya!

[franksolich]

Welcome back frank, I missed ya!

I missed you every day I was gone, madam.

In the platonic sense; the lust is reserved exclusively for delilahmused.

Since I didn't have anything else to do but rest and get well--I'm still working on it, and it's working--I thought about the primitives too.

I decided franksolich is going to do his best to discourage primitives from lurking here.

franksolich as an individual member, not as an authority here.  Just as an individual member; everybody else here has the right to do things their own way.

I also decided that the PoP were becoming a tedious bore, and so invented a new category upon which I plan to concentrate, the IP.

[Vagabond]

They run around saying that conservatives are trying to oppress them then use the courts to force things on people. 

They don't want prayer in government and can't get a law passed?  No problemo, just head to the court and make up complete BS about the meaning of the establishment clause in the first amendment, and take away other's first amendment rights.

They don't like that the majority perceives no need to recognize gay marriage?  Off to the courts we go, the majority must be forced to support the perverts.

They don't like that a cross is being displayed on public land and has been for sixty or more years?  Off to the courts we go.

Don't like a popular amendment that was passed by the people of a state?  Claim the constitutional amendment is unconstitutional and go cry to the courts.

And to make it even better, the ACLU made sure laws got passed that the court pays the claimant's fees in these hearings.  What the DUmmies and their cohorts do everyday is more abysmal tyranny than anything King George ever thought to do.  Maybe the other reasons given for our seperation in the Declaration of Independence are more important than is let on in high school.

[true_blood]

I seriously hate some all of them today everyday.

Fixed it for my personal feelings.

[Airwolf]

Sucks to be them. To be so offended at every little prayer,every little attempt to abide by the laws of this country, Maybe they should just  chug on over to namby pamby land where maybe they can find some self confidence, the jackwagons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ballygrl]

I missed you every day I was gone, madam.

In the platonic sense; the lust is reserved exclusively for delilahmused.

That's OK, LOL!

[JohnnyReb]

WAA YAA DAAA SEEEE HEEEE WOOOOO...that's the sound of the Muzziedine calling the faithful to prayer ....5 times a day... the DUmmies are going to love it.

[Rebel]

I'd have to look, and I can't, but the DUmmies were in a snit over the same thing last year.  The ACLU threatened Pace High School about a prayer and the school folded, and this with no atheist even present to be offended.  The students got together like this and prayed anyway.  The ACLU was in a snit and said the school should have yanked the microphone away from the student.

I hate that liberals wrote laws to force us to pay people like the ACLU.  They wouldn't exist without taxpayer funding.

They're the ones that think we're a "Democracy" so I guess they can all STFU since the majority of the nation is Christian.

[vesta111]

I wonder what you all would be saying if the Valedictorian was a Muslim and  gave out a prayer chant to Allah and perhaps 20 Muslim students chimed in.???

Goes both ways folk, if a Christian Prayer is to be allowed then why not Buddest priests chanting, Wiccans holding smudge pots and American Indians beating on their drums.   Could bring in the Santeria and voodoo to bless the event.

One hell of an interesting graduation that would be, welcome to the real world.

[Splashdown]

I wonder what you all would be saying if the Valedictorian was a Muslim and  gave out a prayer chant to Allah and perhaps 20 Muslim students chimed in.???

Goes both ways folk, if a Christian Prayer is to be allowed then why not Buddest priests chanting, Wiccans holding smudge pots and American Indians beating on their drums.   Could bring in the Santeria and voodoo to bless the event.

One hell of an interesting graduation that would be, welcome to the real world.

Will there be sacrificial virgins? 

[BEG]

Will there be sacrificial virgins? 

H5

[ReaganForRushmore]

Will there be sacrificial virgins? 

Yes, they will look like Helen Thomas and Rosie ODonnell

[WinOne4TheGipper]

I wonder what you all would be saying if the Valedictorian was a Muslim and  gave out a prayer chant to Allah and perhaps 20 Muslim students chimed in.???

Goes both ways folk, if a Christian Prayer is to be allowed then why not Buddest priests chanting, Wiccans holding smudge pots and American Indians beating on their drums.   Could bring in the Santeria and voodoo to bless the event.

One hell of an interesting graduation that would be, welcome to the real world.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;

I'm perfectly okay with it.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

I wonder what you all would be saying if the Valedictorian was a Muslim and  gave out a prayer chant to Allah and perhaps 20 Muslim students chimed in.???

Goes both ways folk, if a Christian Prayer is to be allowed then why not Buddest priests chanting, Wiccans holding smudge pots and American Indians beating on their drums.   Could bring in the Santeria and voodoo to bless the event.

One hell of an interesting graduation that would be, welcome to the real world.

What are Buddest priests, anyway?  I know a lot of people are obsessed with music, but to worship a singer who died a half century ago?
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDcLtiCgAG8&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/youtube]

[dandi]

welcome to the real world.

Try and stick to things you know something about, vesta.  Analyzing your posts, you haven't inhabited the "real world" for decades.

[GOBUCKS]

Try and stick to things you know something about, vesta.  Analyzing your posts, you haven't inhabited the "real world" for decades.

Vestnumbers's view of the world is sort of like a window where you've smeared a thick coat of vaseline over all the glass.
She can see light and dark forms moving around, but has no idea what they are or what they're doing.
That doesn't stop her from having long-winded incoherent opinions on all of it.

[dandi]

Last week Damon Fowler wrote to the principal of Bastrop High School, saying the Christian prayer was a violation of church and state separation laws, and if it wasn't removed, he would contact the ACLU.

The school backed down and removed the prayer from Friday's program and replaced it with a moment of silence.

"I don't think it's a shame I'll be remembered this way, because what I'm doing is right," Fowler told TV station KTVE in Monroe, Louisiana.

However, the student who was supposed to introduce the moment of silence ignored the school's wishes, saying, "I now ask my fellow students who wish to join in to recite the Lord’s Prayer.” Laci Mattice said her faith compelled her to thank God for blessing the class of 2011.

I think we may have missed one very important factor in all of this.  On his very last official day of public school general education, this thumb-sucking "atheist" got taught the most important lesson he has learned to date:  The art of the subtle "**** you".

This was a day for this spoiled little shit unlike any other; a day when he found out the hard way that Americans (especially Southerners) are hard-wired to hang a middle finger in your face when you try to force them to do something. 

Remember your graduation well, Damon, and never forget the humiliation you were handed in front of your graduating class and your town when you tried to use the weight of government to force your beliefs on them.

[dandi]

Vestnumbers's view of the world is sort of like a window where you've smeared a thick coat of vaseline over all the glass.
She can see light and dark forms moving around, but has no idea what they are or what they're doing.
That doesn't stop her from having long-winded incoherent opinions on all of it.

Well, yeah, there's that but don't forget the dope, too.

[Randy]

Will there be sacrificial virgins? 

Those were on Prom Night. 

[ChuckJ]

I wonder what you all would be saying if the Valedictorian was a Muslim and  gave out a prayer chant to Allah and perhaps 20 Muslim students chimed in.???

Goes both ways folk, if a Christian Prayer is to be allowed then why not Buddest priests chanting, Wiccans holding smudge pots and American Indians beating on their drums.   Could bring in the Santeria and voodoo to bless the event.

One hell of an interesting graduation that would be, welcome to the real world.

Honestly? If I happened to be in a place that was predominantly Muslin I would EXPECT a prayer to Allah. If I happened to be in a place that was predominantly Buddhist I would EXPECT chanting. The problem here is that the majority is expected to forfeit their rights and beliefs to satisfy a small group. A small group who believes the right to be vocal about THEIR OWN beliefs should not be silenced.