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Lt Col Charlie Brown
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Excellent decision.
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In Canada, it's okay to have Merry Christmas on buses and they have nativity scenes at government courthouses or City Halls. Something that would drive the atheist left crazy
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People say Merry Christmas in the US like all through December - actually I'm pretty sure Christmas stuff goes up in major stores in November. Practically the day after Thanksgiving.

See some of us just realize that Christmas isn't the only holiday in December...that's all. But yes US Christians are SOOOOO persecuted in this country. *eye roll*. Give me a break.

You do realize the US is NOT a theocracy and that Christianity is NOT the only religion practiced here right?
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Capt Gregory Prickett
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I haven't read the opinion yet, but my lawyer wife has, and she said that the opinion is far more narrow than the press (on both sides) is making it out to be. Based on what she told me, the prohibition on leading students in prayer is still in place and his improper firing was for his praying alone, privately (albeit still on the field) after a game. The ruling was due to his individual religious practices, not what he did with the athletes or others.
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I have read it and I agree with your lawyer wife, for what that's worth. The school district erred in it's zealous defense of the mythical 'separation of church and state.' Liberal atheists claim a separation, but in fact a separation does not exist in the Constitution. Only the establishment clause exists, which quite literally forbids the government from sponsoring or forcing you to belong to a particular religion. "In God We Trust" adorns our court rooms and currency, and our founding documents acknowledge a higher power from which the American ethos was born. Prayer is allowed in school, but only in such manner that it does not disturb the educational process. Christian clubs and functions are allowed, invocations given before graduations, team prayer is common in locker rooms before games and in end zones after games at every level of play. Mrs. Prickett is correct in saying that the Court did not make public prayer at schools legal, but it also did not forbid it. That's up to local authorities to decide where and when certain public speech is allowed and under what circumstances. And it is the God given right of every or any American to challenge those rules.
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