Students at Pace HS make a peaceful protest
The graduating class at Pace High School in Santa Rosa County, Florida have taken a stand against a recent ACLU lawsuit that infringes on the school’s freedom of religion.
The problem started after two Jewish students at the school whined to their parents about the school chorus singing “Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore,” a Christian hymn. The parents, full of self-righteous religious indignation, promptly took their grievance to the ACLU, who filed a lawsuit on their behalf.
The ACLU objected to other Chritian activities at the School, including saying grace before a meal and offering Christian prayer at an assembly.
The case expanded to include the graduation ceremonies at Pace, Central, Jay, Milton, and Navarre High Schools, as well as the Santa Rosa Adult School and Santa Rosa Learning Academy, which have included a Christian prayer conducted by the students for the last five years. All the schools are located in the Santa Rosa disctrict of Florida.
The graduating students at Pace struck back on June 5, wearing crosses on their graduation caps and breaking out into The Lord’s Prayer at the ceremony (you can watch a clip of the event here).
The ACLU promptly condemned the students in a statement, saying the teachers supervising the graduation ceremony should have done something to stop the students from reciting The Lord’s Prayer.
Mathew D. Staver, Founder of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law, commented: “Neither students nor teachers shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate. The students at Pace High School refused to remain silent and were not about to be bullied by the ACLU.
“We have decided to represent faculty, staff and students of Pace High School,” he said, “because the ACLU is clearly violating their First Amendment rights. Schools are not religion-free zones, and any attempt to make them so is unconstitutional.”
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Ok, I can see the antisemitic comments comming here. Hey it was just two asses who had attitude problems. In South Africa it was and maybe still is common to start the school day with prayer and hymns. There were many occasions that christianity was acknowledged as a school, and we Jews in the school could either participate, sit quietly or wait outside. This crap only happens here in America where some people have been corrupted by groups like the ACLU to whine about everything.
And for those Jew haters, before you make stupid comments, just know that this happens on your team too.
Bravo! Good for them for telling the ACLU to shove it!
Yeeh, let them ACLU Talmudists shove off.
My deepest respect and admiration for the students! Way to go!
This is disgusting. A PUBLIC SCHOOL graduation ceremony is no place for ANY KIND of prayer. We have these buildings called CHURCHES where public prayer is not only allowed, but welcomed. What a bunch of babies! God Bless the ACLU for trying to stop errant nonsense like this!
These kids are great! Its about time that the silent majority is speaking up and taking a stand–many of us are sick of political correctness. The minority voices have dominated for far too long in the USA. These young adults willl need to keep praying a lot too with our socialist administration and these congressional buffoons running our government — these kids will be lucky to find any kind of work!
Farmer Tom has a problem with prayer in public schools. Let me ask you something, Tom: Are you aware that the U.S. Congress starts each day with a prayer? Are you aware that our currency contains the words, “In God We Trust”? I think you should burn your money.
BTW, please show me the phrase is the U.S. Constitution: “separation between church and state”.
Hint: You won’t find it.
FarmerTom sounds like a stirrer we all know very well…
@ ron: I agree 100%.
From the Lord’s Prayer: “As we forgive those who trespass against us”…Really?…Sounds like Pinko philosophy to me…”Who art in Heaven”…Would someone please get me a road map so I can visit this place? Do they give you there a towel and a washcloth?…”Thy Will be done” How’s this determined? By examining animals’ entrails? “Our Father” God has a penis? 6″? 7″? 8″?
George: You sound like that ugly dyke Madelyn Murray O’Hair!!
Pullleeez do not lump me with O’Hair! She experimented with Socialism. My point was that you cannot philosophically defend America with the tenets of Christianity which deny reality and believes in the supernatural. It is anti-Jeffersonian. Happy 4th of July and remember the words of the Declaration: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness – the here and now! BTW Jefferson originally penned Property as the last item and then changed it to the Pursuit of Happiness.
George,
It’s still a free country, so you are entitled to your opinion, but…
We don’t have enough cops to be on every street corner to enforce penal laws. We couldn’t afford that. The only people who like living in a police state are the police, anyway. Without an underlying religion based value system guiding interactions, we would devolve into a chaos of selfishness and Hobbsean consequences. I am in a profession that sees the human capacity for rationalization of behavior and self justification that gives me no confidence that human beings are capable of intellectually conducting themselves in a way that sees ethics replace religious concepts of right an wrong.
You should also remember that the Bill of Rights protects the free exercise of religion in and out of public schools.
By the way, I think that it was the British philosopher John Stewart Mill who coined the expression, “life, liberty and property” before Jefferson modified it.