#school prayer

David Badash at NCRM:

At a meeting of his Religious Liberty Commission at Washington, D.C.’s Museum of the Bible, President Donald Trump deepened concerns over the separation of church and state, while he encouraged prayer in public schools, unveiled a new initiative urging Americans to gather in groups of at least ten to pray ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary, and, critics said, appeared to downplay domestic abuse. “To have a great nation, you have to have religion — I believe that so strongly,” Trump said, according to The Washington Post. “There has to be something after we go through all of this, and that something is God.” The Post declared it was Trump’s “exhortation to have the country unite in prayer” that seemed “most striking.” Tying into Trump’s urging for groups of Americans to join in prayer is a new White House post, “America Prays: An Invitation to Prayer & Rededication of the United States as One Nation Under God.” Among the recommended ideas for prayer was this: “Organize the time of prayer by different subjects, such as prayer for government leaders, cultural renewal, protection of freedom, families, individuals, etc.”

[...] Also drawing backlash was Trump’s apparent encouragement of prayer in public schools, at the meeting that was focused on “Religious Liberty in Public Education.” “For most of our country’s history, the Bible was found in every classroom in the nation, yet in many schools, today’s students are instead indoctrinated with anti-religious propaganda and some are even punished for their religious beliefs and very, very strongly punished, it’s ridiculous,” the President said. “I’m pleased to announce this morning that the Department of Education will soon issue new guidance protecting the right to prayer in our public schools.” The Freedom From Religion Foundation responded. “Students have always had the right to pray in public schools,” they wrote. “What Trump is pushing isn’t about protecting prayer — it’s about giving officials a green light to impose Christianity on everyone else. That’s unconstitutional coercion, not freedom.”

USA Today noted that “Students have long had the right to pray in public schools as individuals.” The paper also reported that Americans United for Separation of Church and State President Rachel Laser  “said the commission hearing was ‘more like a church service’ and promoted the ‘lie that America is a Christian nation and that religion is under attack.'”

This is insanity from 47, basically mandating that Conservative Christianity has supremacy over other Christian denominations or religions.

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F The FFRF and Other Mild Opinions - David Silverman

We are in a position now where we are about to lose everything that Madalyn O'Hair and Anne Gaylor fought for. Everything.

We're about to lose school prayer nationwide, writ large, and you're giving $50,000 to the Human Rights Campaign and calling it a victory! You call it activism. I call it betrayal. I call it disgusting. I call it you are now off the table, just like the rest of the trash that is the remains of the atheist movement.

We are falling. And you're off somewhere else, bye, have a nice day, enjoy being a small blip, doing nothing, accomplishing nothing, instead of being the powerhouse legal entity you once fucking were.

You and American Atheists and the Secular Fucking Coalition for America and the Secular Student Alliance. Nothing. The American Humanist Association. What have they done? They're an overtly progressive organization right now. You know, once upon a time there were religious humanists involved. Once upon a time we had a big tent. But we have such a small tent right now, because what has the atheist movement done? What has it done? It has gone so left, so overtly left, as to equate itself with leftism. Uh-duh. As in, to completely abandon the right ,which means the right looks to atheism as the enemy now. Something to be defeated now. It's not just leftism that they're defeating.

If we had atheism in left and the right, would they be doing this? No, they'd be attacking a part of their base. But the entire atheist movement writ large says, in order to be an atheist, you're a leftist. There are no good atheists on the right. And so the entire right can very easily just say okay, we're just going to use religion and push religion in because got nothing to lose.

If only somebody had pre predicted this. If only somebody had been working against this for a decade and a half. If only somebody had been banging this fucking drum that said, you know what, someday the Republicans are going to be in charge again and we need to be there when that happens. If only the atheist movement weren't run by a bunch of incompetent fucks. I mean just fucking incompetent fucks.

Betrayers. Betraying the movement. Betraying everything that we've done. Everything that we've built. We're about to lose Madalyn and FFRF is giving money to gay resources, because, oh, the gays they don't have any money, right?

We're going to lose our war. And we have only one organization left. And it's run by a 26-year-old kid. And it's Atheists for Liberty and it's Thomas Sheedy, and I've donated a bunch of money to him. And this guy -- and I want to make this clear -- school prayer rests on his shoulders. Because the atheist movement has left the building.

School prayer sits on the shoulders of the only atheist organization with any friends in power. Any friends on the Republican side. They're the only ones with friends who can hear, who will hear us.

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We've officially lost the last of the big atheist orgs who were protecting our interests in the US. They've decided they're too busy involved in the gender cult to bother about matters of secularism and atheism.

We're having to start over completely from scratch.

(via SCOTUS: School Prayer Awesome, Establishment Clause For Decorative Purposes Only - Wonkette)

these fuckers are crazy...they are destroying the Constitution to create a religious state.

Let us toot.