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Reply to "Football, Prayers, and the First Amendment"

Originally Posted by Contendah:
Originally Posted by NashBama:
Originally Posted by Bestworking:

The school didn't fight it because they don't have the funds to do so, you're right about that. However, their decision is based on money not on whether they did something illegal. They did nothing illegal.

 

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If they did nothing illegal what would there be to fight?

A lawsuit doesn't mean they did anything illegal. It means they are accused of doing something illegal. Very different.

 

The school was forced to stop their tradition because a group with more money, that does not live in the community, bullied them into stopping. It has nothing to do with rights or what is legal. It's about silencing religion and free expression.

 

I'm not offended by other religions or when someone says they are an atheist. Doesn't bother me in the least. Yet, one of the most vile things a group of students and parents can do is pray with a single atheist present.

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You say, "Yet, one of the most vile things a group of students and parents can do is pray with a single atheist present."  Well, then, to be certain not to participate in such a "vile" exercise, would it not be best NOT to have ANY public prayers where hundreds, or even thousands, of persons are present and where it is highly probable that at least one of them is an atheist?  Should those believing  parents and students at football games at Arab, Alabama  canvass the crowd to be sure there is not an atheist there, lest their pre-game prayer become some kind of abomination?

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You took my sentence out of context. I was attempting to point out how trivial the situation is.

 

I'm not offended when I'm exposed to beliefs that differ from my own. I don't get upset when I see Muslim women wearing their head scarfs around town. It doesn't bother me when I pass the Buddhist Temple just outside of town. I'm not offended when I see someone refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance because they are Jehovah's Witness.  

 

So for someone to become so offended and outraged at a group of people expressing their beliefs is ridiculous. It has nothing to do with the first amendment, it's a way of trying to eliminate religion and any religious expression.


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