Go here to read an article on this. If you have a meltdown over a brief prayer before a public meeting, a tradition that goes back to Jamestown and Plymouth Rock, time to take a good long look in the mirror. Pam Escobar is the name of the Board Member, and of course she is a Democrat.
My response to Pam Escobar;
Just HOW much oxygen do you need?
“Public schools are not churches, and school board meetings are no place for religious rituals“
Ah but often they are. They worship things that are against Nature, and Nature’s God. Have a cult like feel that prevents students from opting out. Even have their own flag.
Gratitude and Thanksgiving for freedom, family, neighbors, food, clothing,… and that ever needed prayer…”deliver us from evil.”
Evidently this individual would see us go to war, starve and be enslaved by communism.
“And for the support of this Declaration with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence…” God.
If this person is a public servant she ought to have read our Founding Principles.
Ignorance has no place teaching children.
Amen David WS.
My job was threatened recently..of all times Holy Week…when a co-worker and I were discussing the absurdity of biological males competing with females at the Collegiate level. A transvestite co-worker complained.
My General manager is a homosexual.
You can only guess how my meeting went.
We are surrounded by pagans who worship themselves. Our job is to show mercy in the hope we help save them from hell. Even if its only one.
At the expense of our freedom to speak the truth? That, I have great problems with, but what is the price of a soul in God’s eyes?
Piggybacking on what David said, the anthropology on the part of people like this is so bad. They don’t even recognize that we all worship, and all that’s left to determine is the who/what.
Bob Dylan;
“…it may be the devil or it may be the Lord, but your gonna have to serve somebody.”
What’s wrong with her? So what if people want to pray. I honestly do not think that the 90 plus nationalities she is referring to care if anyone prays. All cultures pray. It’s people like her that use other people as an excuse for her to air her prejudice. She is a bigot.
Some people are elated when an individual walks into a room. Some people are elated when an individual leaves the room.
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Why doesn’t someone just ask if they can put it up to a vote. Ask her why she thinks she and she alone can determine everything and impose her values and beliefs on everyone else. I think that’s a question worth asking.
You don’t check your constitutional rights at the door when you enter a government building. Once, beginning my 9 minutes to speak before the Ctiy Council of San Antonio, considering a zoning variance for Planned Barrenhood, I began with the Our Father. Council members squirmed, got up, sat down – a real “cross before a vampire.” Most of those present chimed in. The demons totally lost it when I then began again – en espanol. Guy, Texas
MEMORANDUM FOR ALL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES FROM: THE ATTORNEY GENERAL SUBJECT: Federal Law Protections for Religious Liberty The President has instructed me to issue guidance interpreting religious liberty protections in federal law, as appropriate. Exec. Order No. 13798 § 4, 82 Fed. Reg. 21675 (May 4, 2017). Consistent with that instruction, I am issuing this memorandum and appendix to guide all administrative agencies and executive departments in the execution of federal law.
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4. Americans do not give up their freedom of religion by participating in the marketplace, partaking of the public square, or interacting with government. Constitutional protections for religious liberty are not conditioned upon the willingness of a religious person or organization to remain separate from civil society. Although the application of the relevant protections may differ in different contexts, individuals and organizations do not give up their religious-liberty protections by providing or receiving social services, education, or healthcare; by seeking to earn or earning a living; by employing others to do the same; by receiving government grants or contracts; or by otherwise interacting with federal, state, or local governments.
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13. A governmental action substantially burdens an exercise of religion under RFRA if it bans an aspect of an adherent’s religious observance or practice, compels an act inconsistent with that observance or practice, or substantially pressures the adherent to modify such observance or practice.
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Importantly, the protection of the Free Exercise Clause also extends to acts undertaken in accordance with such sincerely-held beliefs. That conclusion flows from the plain text of the First Amendment, which guarantees the freedom to “exercise” religion, not just the freedom to “believe” in religion. See Smith, 494 U.S. at 877; see also Thomas, 450 U.S. at 716; Paty, 435 U.S. at 627; Sherbert, 374 U.S. at 403–04; Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205, 219–20 (1972). Moreover, no other interpretation would actually guarantee the freedom of belief that Americans have so long regarded as central to individual liberty. Many, if not most, religious beliefs require external observance and practice through physical acts or abstention from acts. The tie between physical acts and religious beliefs may be readily apparent (e.g., attendance at a worship service) or not (e.g., service to one’s community at a soup kitchen or a decision to close one’s business on a particular day of the week). The “exercise of religion” encompasses all aspects of religious observance and practice.
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Democrats are either demon-oppressed or demon-possessed. Period. End of story.