This morning as I was reading my daily emails, this email from the Christian Headlines, written by John Paluska, and the article's title was "School District to Pay $187,000 to the Atheist Group over Praying, Singing Hymns during Graduation Ceremony." The American Humanist Association brought the lawsuit against the Greenville School District to allow prayer and singing of hymns during the graduation ceremony.
These questions came to
mind, is this another attack on our religious freedom? What happened to our
First Amendment rights that give us the freedom of expression and worship? Who
is this group, and what right do they have to say when, where, and how we
worship God? There is a God regardless of what this or any other group
believes, and all who believe in Him have a right to worship Him whenever,
wherever, and however we please.
The church must step
forward and tell this group, any other atheists, and the courts that freedom of
worship will stand, and all non-believers have no right to say otherwise. The
church must not make the same mistake it did when it sat quietly and allowed
one atheist to take prayer out of our schools. When God and prayer left in
walked the Devil.
In all fairness to the
judge who presided over the case left some central parts of our freedom of
speech in his ruling. However, in my humble opinion, this group won by the mere
fact that there is a monetary settlement in the case and with this part of the
judge's ruling on the case; "The district also shall not include an
obviously religious piece of music as part of the official program for a
graduation ceremony," wrote District Court Judge Bruce Hendricks.
"The district and/or school officials shall not encourage, promote,
advance, endorse, or participate in causing prayers during any graduation
ceremony."
I am not asking anyone
to agree with me; I express my opinion and observe as I remember how prayer was
taken out of the schools. Since then, we have had nothing but troubles in our
schools and society overall. There have been mass shootings in our schools and
communities, families against one another, and evilness of all kinds. There was
a time when the church, school, and home were on the same teaching Christ in
one format. There was devotion in my school every morning, and it didn't
infringe upon my First Amendment right to participate or not to participate.
When are we going to
put Christ back at the forefront of our lives?
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