Freedom From Religion Atheists Tackle High School Football

[BeatMan]

in the film A League of Their Own, the manager, played by Tom Hanks, advises a tearful player on a women's baseball team, "There's no crying in baseball." According to the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), a group of permanently offended atheists that are also in a league of their own, there is no praying in football, not to mention "Hail Mary" passes to win the big game. Tim Tebow, call your office.

In the ongoing struggle for religious liberty, constitutional conservatives like to say the Constitution was written by those fleeing from religious persecution and that the First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion and not freedom from it. The FFRF begs to differ, insisting in repeated legal actions against Christians that the Creator the Declaration of Independence says endowed us with our unalienable rights is not to be given thanks in the public square.

The atheist group's latest target is the athletes at West Branch High School in Beloit, Ohio, who like to gather in prayer at their games to give thanks to that Creator, rather than take a knee in protest of something or other like their less thankful older professional counterparts:



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[Johan]

West Branch High School is a government funded high school, and there fore is forbidden to take any religious stand by the First Amendment

 

[BeatMan]

West Branch High School is a government funded high school, and therefore is forbidden to take any religious stand by the First Amendment

A group of athletes praying does not violate the 1st amendment

 

[Will E Worm]

The anti-American subversive and Communist group Freedom From Religion needs to be disbanded.

Founder: Anne Nicol Gaylor, Died June 14, 2015. The group needs to die.

A group of athletes praying does not violate the 1st amendment

True.

 

[Jack Davenport]

A group of athletes praying does not violate the 1st amendment

Yep.

They are not being forced to pray.

Johan is wrong again.

 

[AlabamaHotPocket]

first of all, american thinker is a far-right wing pro-Christian site. Second, public schools cannot favor one belief over another.

 

[Jack Davenport]

first of all, american thinker is a far-right wing pro-Christian site. Second, public schools cannot favor one belief over another.

Yeah, what of it?

Yes they can, public schools favor liberal ideology over all others all the time.

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

A group of athletes praying does not violate the 1st amendment

Religious oppression is a sickness to be snuffed out at every turn.
Atheists may whine a great deal but religious extremism tends to lead to murder and yes there are plenty of religious zealots in the christian ranks also.
Keep your faith personal and to yourself.

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A group of athletes praying does not violate the 1st amendment

But there is no place for it on public property.

 

[Will E Worm]

zeeblofowl_1969

Wrong :tongue:

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

zeeblofowl_1969

Wrong :tongue:

Facts are facts no amount of blind faith will ever change that.

 

[Jack Davenport]

Sheeeeeeeeeet.

 

[BeatMan]

Religious oppression is a sickness to be snuffed out at every turn.
Atheists may whine a great deal but religious extremism tends to lead to murder and yes there are plenty of religious zealots in the christian ranks also.
Keep your faith personal and to yourself.

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But there is no place for it on public property.

volunteer prayers does not violate the 1st amendment