Mooresville, N.C. (CBS CHARLOTTE) – Head football coach of Mooresville High School, Hal Capps, has been ordered to stop baptizing players and leading them in prayer following criticism from a national organization promoting constitutional separation of church and state.It is not against any part of the US Constitution, which enjoins only Congress from making laws regarding a national religion. The FFRF is a bullying organization who threatens small organizations with expensive lawsuits if the Atheist, secularist, anti-tolerant, anti-religion is not the established worldview in use.
The Wisconsin-based nonprofit Freedom from Religion Foundation wrote a request last fall that coach Capps cease leading prayers and joining baptisms for his players as a base rule of separating public school activities and religious ceremonies. School Superintendent Mark Edwards met with Capps, who said, “he understood” the violation and would no longer participate in such religious observances, the Charlotte Observer reports.
“It is a violation of the Constitution for the Mooresville High School football coach to organize, lead, or participate in prayers or other religious proselytizing before, during, or after games and practices,” Patrick Elliott, attorney for Freedom from Religion Foundation, wrote to the school’s district attorney last fall.
This is the reason that I support Jay Sekulow and the ACLJ, which successfully counters this type of bullying every day with its banks of constitutional lawyers.
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Don't you love how they bandy about the term Constitution with reckless abandon all the while using the idiots in black robes to circumvent the easily understandable language of said document; and like the second amendment completely disregard the founders own writings on the subject which clearly demonstrates how they viewed the matter. Of course, the idea of Federalized education would be laughable to our founders.
This, I believe, really started with Scopes when a bunch of out-of-state litigators found a volunteer to challenge an obscure State law that they were going to use a springboard to the Supreme Court.
Back then it was just that they wanted equal time in science classes, now a hundred years later, they are as diametrically opposed to contrary thinking as any eschatological boogeyman they've vilified through revisionist History. Galileo comes to mind. I'm regularly having to straighten out peoples complete lack of understanding about Galileo because of the lies that have propagated over the years about what exactly he believed and what exactly he was censured for.
Since there's no God according to the atheist, what does it matter to them whether or not somebody engages in baptism and/or prayer? Moreover, who declared these people the [I]moral authority[/I] in a country which was founded on Christianity with our rights inherented by our Creator, and specifically where in the Constitution does it prohibit prayer and baptism on school property?
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