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- THE OLD REBELS
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- According to USA Today, the South is going to rise again. For at this
- time, all over the South, colleges and high schools are simply
- thumbing their noses at a Supreme Court ruling in May that banned
- prayer before football games. The defiance is getting enthusiastic
- support. We read from October 10, 1989, "Public school officials in
- the Bible belt are getting standing ovations for ignoring a Federal
- ban on pre-game prayers. `It was the first time I ever heard applause
- for a prayer,' says Bill Joseph, Montgomery County Commission
- Chairman. `Telling me I can't pray at a high school game or any other
- gathering is an infringement on my rights.'" Amen.
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- Churches in Parry, Georgia "bused in two hundred people to a Houston
- County Georgia Board of Education in the last month to support prayer
- in school and the continuance of religious clubs on school grounds.
- The Houston County Board voted to uphold the right of religious clubs
- to meet at the school but prohibited the invocation of football games
- this fall. `You have a public that says to defy the courts,' says
- Houston County School's Chief Harold Chapman, `then you get legal
- advice that says that the board violates the courts and the board and
- the individual members are liable.'
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- "The American Civil Liberties Union is considering court action
- against schools throughout the South that challenge the ban of
- invocations."
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- The ACLU says this: "It's a very old principle that shouldn't have
- taken us over two hundred years to figure out, the State is not
- supposed to be involved in promoting or establishing religion."
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- Praying at a school gathering is not "promoting religion" or
- "establishing religion." The ACLU (the American Communists Lovers'
- Union) is simply denying the rights of free speech to free Americans.
- No religion is promoted or established by a man praying, and it
- shouldn't take anybody two hundred years to learn that. As a matter
- of fact, it shouldn't have taken those dumb blockheads in the ACLU
- twenty minutes to learn that. Anybody could have learned that by
- reading a dictionary.
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