I am so pleased to see a graduating high school class tell the ACLU where to get off:
The senior class at a southern Kentucky high school gave their response Friday night to a federal judge's order banning prayer at commencement.About 200 seniors stood during the principal's opening remarks and began reciting the Lord's Prayer, prompting a standing ovation from a standing-room only crowd at the Russell County High School gymnasium.
The thunderous applause drowned out the last part of the prayer.
God bless those kids. They didn't let one lone whiner stop them from having the graduation ceremony that they wanted.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky filed suit on behalf of the unidentified student on Tuesday.ACLU attorney Lili Lutgens said she was pleased with the judge's order and "very proud of my client for standing up for the Constitution." Lutgens said prayer would be unconstitutional because it would endorse a specific religion and religious views.
Funny. MY copy of the Constitution says:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...
Therefore, it seems to me that you treat this like an election: if the majority says they want the prayer in the ceremony, well then, the minority abides by that choice. If this person's faith (or lack thereof) is so fragile and insecure that they take "offense" at well-established traditions, perhaps s/he should have gone to a school more in line with their philosophy. Besides, I don't see anyone here in the United States beheading anyone, or making them pay extra taxes, or denying them legal rights, simply because their religion is different from the majority.
Finally, one little thing. Since when is a Kentucky High School's graduating prayers equal to Congress legislating a state religion?
Anti-Christian Libel Union, 0 - Kentucky high school Class of 2006 - 1
(HT to Emperor Misha and Stop the ACLU)
What the ACLU nd others have successfully done is hoodwink a gullible, with the conivance of activist judges, into misapplying the 14th amendment's "incorporation" clause which is meant to insure that rights assured in the Constitution may not be abridged by state or local governments.
By combining that with the extra-Constitutional "wall of separation" comment made by Jefferson in one letter dealing more with Virginia's constitutional stance than the U.S. Constitution—a comment that was nowhere a part of the debate on adopting the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution—they have made a freedom of religion clause into a freedom from religion clause... and aimed it squarely at Christians, giving a bye to the savages who want sharia law established in the U.S. (and everywhere).
The fact that they have so long gotten away with it is due largely to the massive ignorance of the American electorate, which is just one more reason the Founders and Framers devised a Republic with checks and balances beyond just the three governmental branches that limited the democratic elements they feared would destroy the republic.
Well, we have mob rule now, and the mob is largely subliterate, illiterate and/or completely ignorant of American history.
And so the ACLU and it's cohorts in crime among the Mass Media Podpeoples' Hivemind and political poltroons can hoodwink the American sheeple darned near all they want.
But that can change. And blogs like yours are an integral part of a possible solution.
Posted by: David | May 23, 2006 at 04:43 PM