Football fans were not on board with a Georgia school district’s decision to prohibit pre-game prayer. God-hating bullies in the Freedom From Religion Foundation were behind the move, threatening to sue if individuals were allowed to freely express their religious beliefs.
Through its convoluted, skewed interpretation of America’s guiding documents, the FFRF alleges such prayers are unconstitutional. Apparently, Haralson County school administrators either agreed or felt the issue did not warrant their resistance.
The resiliency of believers, however, was on display at a subsequent game. Wearing pro-prayer T-shirts, hundreds of students and their parents showed up to join in a prayer before kickoff.
Since the prayers are not being broadcast over the loudspeakers (and thus are not school-sponsored), it seems this group of praying football fans beat the anti-prayer bigots at FFRF at their own game. In theory, the hatemongers wanted to quash all public prayers; in reality, they just gave praying football fans a common cause and renewed dedication to show up early for the pre-game invocation.
This isn’t the first time FFRF has used this scare tactic against schools for precisely the same reason. Almost exactly a year before the Georgia incident, just as football season was warming up, the group forced a Kentucky school district to end its tradition of beginning games with a prayer.
Despite social media backlash and a huge majority in favor of the tradition, administrators decided surrendering to the foundation’s atheist will was the most prudent choice.
Instead of inviting (not forcing) attendees to join in a prayer for the safety of the players on the field and U.S. troops around the world, FFRF was successful in silencing the Pentecostal pastor who had led the prayer for the previous two decades.
Knowing their contention that allowing prayer is tantamount to endorsing a religion is extraordinarily tenuous, these godless creeps resort to using the mere threat of a lawsuit to force the hand of spineless officials.
One group of Georgians spoke for the silent majority of believers in this country when they proudly stood up for faith and freedom at that high school football game. They proved that the silent majority won’t stay silent indefinitely!
B. Christopher Agee founded The Informed Conservative in 2011. Follow him on Twitter @bcagee.
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So they were threatened to be sued if they prayed over a loudspeaker. Let the games begin. We need more school districts to ignore the FFRF and their threats. What would the FFRF do if every school distrisct in the country ignored them? Let’s say they were able to get a law passed and the law was ignored and every school district still prayed before every game. It would be interesting to see the outcome of that scenerio. But we know there are far too many school diistrists leaders who do not have the courage to stand for their or our rights and wll allow thenselves to be bullied, Disgusting!!!
I would like to see a male get in my face and tell me I am not allowed to pray at any sports event!
All we Christians need to do is give God a chance,he will do the rest.Amen?God has been removed from too many things and we as Christians are tired of it.Take a stand and make them “sue”,eventually they’ll go broke and shut up!Good always trumps evil….ALWAYS !
“We, the people”, are directly responsible for this anti-Christian group called the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF).
Many, or perhaps most voters, are not paying attention as to how mostly, left-wing Democrats with a few RINO Republicans, are “voting for and/or appointing others” in public office who introduce, support, and legislate anti-Christian rules and laws.
When will Americans recognize and become more engaged to stop these anti-Christian, anti-value value policies?
AMEN and AMEN AGAIN!
This is wonderful that they have stood up and Challenged these Socialist Progressive who want to rule and not Govern. We need more challenges like this and regain our freedom and the Republic for which we stand. If we don’t soon our way of life is gone as we will be ruled totally by Petty Bureaucrats and Committees. presently we are being ruled by Agencies like the EPA, FDA (murder for profit inc.) and others like the TSA., which not only molest people at the airport, but not the train, bus stations and road blocks. If the course is not changed soon it will be better to live in Russia or some place else.
Prayer is the choice of the person and if they want to pray then they should be able to and these God hating mad people should keep their nose out of it. Why can they sue and demand prayer not be said in school or at games but what would happen if we sued because of them and the way they feel about prayer or the pledge or any other thing to do with God.
This has been going on for a long time with the fighting in court about different things that has to do with prayer but the Dems could bring God into their convention and this country has gone down hill, kids have no respect for anything, life is messed up and all since this stuff with people like these God hating idiots sueing or threatening to sue. This is my country and I will pray when I want and I am not ashamed to admit that I believe in God and I trust in God