In response to activist judges
Posted by Moonage on 19 May 2006 | Tagged as: Political Correctness
ACLU attorney Lili Lutgens said she was pleased with the judge’s order and "very proud of my client for standing up for the Constitution." Lutgens said prayer would be unconstitutional because it would endorse a specific religion and religious views.
"He did not feel that he should have to sit through government-sponsored prayer just to receive his diploma," Lutgens said of the student.
The student response to the judge blocking prayer during the graduation ceremony was:
About 200 seniors stood during the principal’s opening remarks and began reciting the Lord’s Prayer, prompting a standing ovation from a standing-room only crowd at the Russell County High School gymnasium.
The thunderous applause drowned out the last part of the prayer.
The revival like atmosphere continued when senior Megan Chapman said in her opening remarks that God had guided her since childhood. Chapman was interrupted repeatedly by the cheering crowd as she urged her classmates to trust in God as they go through life.
The challenge made the graduation even better because it unified the senior class, Chapman said.
That’s how you deal with activist judges. Now, I don’t toss the term around liberally. In the purest sense, this was not state sponsored prayer as it is usually a student that gives the prayer, not the school. And, in this case, the desires of 200 clearly outweigh the desires of 1. When a judge determines the 1 is more important than the 200, that’s activism. When the 200 send a very clear signal to the judge, that’s activism on their part. I’m gonna bet there’s prayer at next year’s graduation at Russell County High School. Good for those kids.
I am sick and tired of self-righteous egotism outweighing respect for their fellow man and love seeing the proper response to it. No one got hurt by those kids praying en masse. If the 1 kid didn’t like it, they could have recited the lyrics to any song they liked while the prayer was being given. Hopefully that kid learned a lesson. Probably not, but I can only hope. We need to teach the next generation that "me" is nowhere near as important as "we". And in this case, "we" trumped "me". It always will in the long run. It’s obvious our generation got it backwards.
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