Poor DUmmies.
alp227 (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-03-11 09:26 PM
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Appeals court allows prayer at Texas high school's graduation
Source: CNN
(CNN) -- Honorary speakers at a Texas high school's commencement ceremonies will be allowed to invoke prayer at their graduation Saturday after a federal appeals court overturned a judge's ruling that would have banned it.
The ban, imposed Wednesday by U.S. District Court Judge Fred Biery, caught the attention of Gov. Rick Perry and state Attorney General Greg Abbott, who supported an emergency appeal filed by the Medina Valley Independent School District on Thursday.
"It should not be illegal for students to say a prayer at a graduation ceremony. Now, the federal court of appeals agrees," Abbott said in a statement Friday following the reversal.
The original lawsuit was filed last week by an agnostic family whose son attends Medina Valley High School in Castroville, about 30 miles west of San Antonio. The Schultz family said their son would suffer "irreparable harm" if anyone prayed at the graduation ceremony.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/03/texas.school.prayer/in...
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SoapBox (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-03-11 10:01 PM
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2. Cramming A religion down the throats of Americans...
Oh ya...you best get in a "believe'n mood"!
If the RushThugs and T.HATERbaggers have their way, you's gonna be pray'n to THEIR version of religion.
Or...it's off to Gitmo for you!
Nobody's "cramming" anything, numbnutz. You don't like it? Ignore it. It's the spoken word. It's not the law establishing a religion or anyone forcing a profession of faith from you in order for you to enjoy your rights. All of you need to stop being so hysterical.
bloomington-lib (334 posts) Fri Jun-03-11 10:22 PM
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3. The Schultz family said their son would suffer "irreparable harm" if anyone prayed at the graduation
I don't think any one religion should be promoted over others by public means but the parents are a little over the top.
No Elephants (1000+ posts) Sat Jun-04-11 02:06 AM
Response to Reply #3
8. You must plead irreparable harm in order to get an injunction and I have
no problem saying that forever losing his Constitutional right to a religion free graduation is irreparable harm.
OMG, his little ears! Will they ever recover?
provis99 (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-03-11 10:54 PM
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6. so, when can a Satanist pray to Satan at graduation?
Oh, never? Because it's not Christian? Got it.
Fine, dumbshit. Find a graduation where around 75-80-90% of the graduates claim affiliation with Satanism and I'm sure it will work. Same goes for any religion.
riderinthestorm (1000+ posts) Sat Jun-04-11 04:24 PM
Response to Reply #14
15. But the event is being held on a tax payer sponsored site, at tax payer expense,
with a program that's been printed at tax payer cost, at an event that's being sponsored by a public school.
I'm sorry but it IS the job of government to ensure that the public square isn't used to promulgate religion period. That's a fundamental point of the separation of church and state. They are de facto "supporting" religion by allowing this prayer to be held at the high school graduation, a public event at a government site even if the actual prayer is being performed by non-governmental actors.
COLGATE4 (1000+ posts) Sat Jun-04-11 12:23 PM
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10. The Xian fundamentalists and their Rethug allies are determined
to chip away at the separation of church and state bit by bit. Every year there's a case brought against some school in East Cockroach AL (or TX or OK) by some 'aggrieved' students who just can't understand why Christian prayers at a public school graduation ceremony 'might be found to be offensive by some'. The goal is to amass enough Appeals Court precedent in favor of allowing it so as to get it to the Supreme Court, where the fundies believe (with some reason) that the USSCt may make a final ruling in their favor. It's a war of attrition, and the fundies are good at it.
You know, I think I've got the answer to all this BS. If the graduation is being held, for instance, on the HS's football field, the students get together and rent a postage-stamp-sized lot directly bordering the property for one night, just big enough to hold them all. Then, right before the ceremony starts, they rise from their chairs, step over to the private lot (preferrably only a few feet away), say their prayer, and step back over to their seats when they're done. Guaranteed, Leftist heads would still explode and they'd try to find some other way to squelch it. It's never been so much about the "separation of church and state". That's just a smokescreen. It's all about their hatred of God and Christians.
