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Among all the other aspects of this story that are worthy of comment, such as the bravery of a small bunch of high school kids who refused to allow a federal judge to interefere with their faith and their community’s noble traditions, there is also the abiding impact of the George W. Bush presidency. 

Two of the most enduring (and endearing) successes of his Presidency have been his appointments to the bench, from SCOTUS on down, and his appointments to the Federal Reserve system

Bill Pryor, Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owens, and the rest of the federal circuit court and appeals court judges (to include Brett Cavanaugh next week) will be with us for a long time to come.  At the Supreme Court, Mr. Bush may not be done yet.  But his appointments of Sam Alito and John Roberts were inspired, long term successes for which he has received scant credit.

Meanwhile over at the Fed, Ben Bernanke more than offsets Princeton’s shame at being the alma mater of ex-Enron advisor Paul Krugman, the Juan Cole of finance.  His tenure, and that of the other Bush-appointed Governors will be marked by an emphasis on low taxes and economic growth, a winning combination.

Bet your ass, Monday morning 09:00, this judge is going to issue bench warrants for school administrators and students who dared to defy his commands. Bank on it.

No bench warrants for students or adminstrators unless they violated the Judges order, which was probably directed to school administrators.

Next graduation the students can handle their snakes.

What do you make of this report by WHAS-TV in Louisville

Student questions constitutionality of prayer
06:09 PM EDT on Thursday, May 18, 2006

Arshiya Saiyed is one of those girls that seems to get everything done in a day: school, volunteering, extra curriculars.

“I was planning graduation with the senior committee when this comes,” she says.

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“Terms like Jesus Christ, heavenly father, I talked about the fact I was Muslim...”

Friday, May 19, 2006 11:29 a.m. EDT
Judge Blocks School Graduation Prayers

A federal judge on Friday blocked a southern Kentucky high school from including prayers in its graduation ceremony Friday evening.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit this week seeking a restraining order on behalf of an unidentified student at Russell County High School in Russell Springs, 90 miles south of Louisville.

The student had appealed to principal Darren Gossage to drop the prayer from the Friday evening ceremony, but the principal refused, ACLU attorney Lili Lutgens said.

The ongoing war on Christianity.  Let’s put it to a national vote.  Oh, we did.  The First Amendment says:  “...nor prohibit the free exercise thereof(of religion)”.  Sounds pretty clear to me.

The ongoing war on Christianity.

Have they padlocked the churches?

Andrew Bryant asked, What do you make of this report by WHAS-TV in Louisville

1. Prayer in school is not “unConstitional”. 2. So she was offended by Christian prayers that generally thank God and are peaceful - so what? Her religion offends me and I’m not telling her to jump.

I find her religious practices highly offensive, stoning of rape victims, sodomizing of young boys, suicide bombings. Can I get a restraining order against her?

But almost the minute she questioned the religious prayer, Arshiya started getting harassed by a group of students, some in individual meetings, and one student who told her he wanted her out of the country.

Surprise.  Not.

We don’t have a ‘state religion’ in this country; this country was a harbor for people who didn’t want a state religion.  That’s what the separation of church and state is all about.

The state cannot force you to ascribe to any one belief system, church or religion.  And if a government/government-sponsored organization does force you to participate in such a service or religion, then your freedom of religion is gone.

The attitude she received doesn’t surprise me in the least, though.

However, I’m sure that next year if another Aliysha and some Muslim friends want to practice their religion at the graduation ceremonies in your town at your kids’ schools, none of you will mind.

There is no “separation of church and state” in the Constitution.  What we do have is: “Congress shall make no law regarding the establishment of religion, NOR PROHIBIT THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF.” You seem to forget that last part.

Diane Iam surprised you didnt comment in this thread here

Unless you can try to add anything else to refute the fact that America was founded on Christianity.

Actually, Dhimi, we did just that at a graduation last week. No one, here in rural west PA had a problem with it.

Did what, HotelBoy, had Muslim worship?

WETBACK, the thread is too long and I’m too tired to go through it.

America was founded on “christianity”? Really? Must be a FACT from the new history books that are now re-writing our past. I must apologize as I thought America was founded by Thomas Jefferson,James Madison and other great men who knew the importance of religious freedoms(an individuals right to believe NOT a national religious platform)and how they must be “kept seperate from the functioning powers of a government of the people”! But far be it from christians to attempt to rewrite the past to fit their beliefs as the world continues forward and they stay stuck in the mud. So a town with 2000 people(any stats on how many are “RELATIVES” or DIRECT descendants from each other)held a graduation ceremony and they recited the our father(a poem about an invisible guy who lives in an invisible house way up in the sky and can forgive weak self-impaired people from far away)and this is NEWS on sayanythingblog. Man,that alone is pretty funny but I kinda think WOOF summed it up best when he asked about next year’s ceremony and the presence of EVIL DETERRINGING SNAKES! Unless the local pastor gets jailed between now and then for having a fondness for little boys. If this occurs he will most likely be transferred out of there and the new “representative of christ” can decide what gimmick he will use at the next graduation. Maybe a terri schiavo drinking fountain? Since she was “begging for water” when the administration of auschwitz,florida killed her.

Your post, Hugh, reflects what people who have stolen the name ‘christianity’ have done to Christanity.  It was never meant to be a political statement or a way to bully others, or a national religion.  They have stolen that name and drug it through the mud as surely as they have done both of those to the country itself.

The rest of us will have to clean up their mess, their bills and try to find a way to make much of the rest of the world’s population stop hating our guts.

They think they can bank their safety and future on America’s riches and weapons and, in the first case they’re wrong, in the second maybe wrong as well.

The Jews bark at any mention of Christianity, but the brainwashed turd appears to yelp the loudest with there worn out harebrained lies which amount to nothing as they try to deter the foundation of truth. I challenge you Hugh Kennsukkit to bring forth one shread of evidence concerning this matter that has not been shot down vigorously in the past.

Probably a huge mistake to even reply to someone that far OUT THERE but i’ll amuse myself and entertain “WETBACK’S” reply. OK pay attention (i realize thats asking much but try,maybe you can pray for the strength to do it) FIRST please type in a link that shows Thomas Jefferson,James Madison,John Adams and many others stating that jesus christ was “GOD"(crax me up every time i type it)! SECOND type in a link that show where they wanted “CHRISTIANITY” to be the basis of OUR country and a foundation for the United States. THIRD type in a link from the SCIENTIFIC community that states people can"fly up to heaven to be with their invisible father”. This one is tricky and you might wanna skip it,since most christians like to skip things that are REAL and ruin their book of fairy tales,but if you are up to the challenge I hope you look under the category of GRAVITY. It will save you some time. FOURTH please type in a link where the scientific community believes that babies are born without sperm and some can come from the ANGEL OF THE LORD coming in the night. Sorta like a subliminal rapist type of guy! Now, the FIFTH one is a very hard one so take your time with it. Homosexuality,and it’s evil presence in the world and to this day I have yet to meet a priest that I didn’t think was a little “light on his feet” if ya know what I mean. Surely your beliefs wouldn’t condone someone who likes tube steak preaching against homosexuality,someone who has been divorced(probably many times)preaching against the evilness of divorce,many people who use contraception preaching against it’s use. And we can’t forget the famous catholic pasttime of preaching against abortion yet when their lovely daughters get knocked up they simply sneak out of state to get “the problem taken care of!” And so on,get it? Hypocrisy and the bible go hand in hand and you my boy are a hypocrite to even attempt to state that the United States was founded on chritianity!

Thomas Jefferson when asked what he thought of the bible......"pure dunghill”
Now since I am a very fair person I’ll give you a quote from your side of the aisle. “Terri Schiavo is an angel sent here from god to enlighten us to the evils and wickedness of our society!” Tom Delay(on the floor of OUR congress) Actually the only angel that was sent was sent by the FBI when they listened in and found out Tom Hairpiece was helping himself to a life style fitting a rockstar! (In the name of the lord of course)

Dont bother responding wetback,I realize “I can tell your a christian but I can’t tell ya much”

Hugh Kennsukkit dont try to guess where I stand as a Christian my believes are far from you average Christian who today practices a Judeo/Christian religion. The only thing you displayed above was your hatred and denial of God. One can show you a profuseness amount of evidence but your loathe would out weigh every ounce of truth. And just as I suspected you were incapable of providing any credible evidence. So I may be wrong by trying to pin you here but go read your talmud you F--king Jew

Jefferson was a diest and a slave owner.

The term ‘christian’ has been sliced, chopped, and ground to a fine powder by people who don’t know what it means.  I knew a woman (my business mentor, actually), who would say, “Honey..he/she is ‘christian’”...meaning not an axe murderer.

And Hitler made the trains run on time.  So what?
You lefties will apparently say anything, make up any lies and distortions, to continue your war on Christianity, and ignore the slavetrading, child-molesting jihadists.  Nice double standard.

Where in the world does slavery still exsist? What is the religious base of those countries? What religious text is still used to justify slavery? What is the racial makeup of the countries who still,legally, practice slavery? And for the bonus point, what large, international body has taken no actions to end slavery in these countries?

Okay, well:

I just posted articles on sex slavery/work slaves in this country.

Paul tells slave owners to be kind to their slaves in the New Testament. 

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See, the Bible and other books can be made to say what people want them to say.  You love to twist Islam into a pretzel. 

Our prisons are bursting with more criminals than they can hold.

Our kids are being picked up by Internet perverts from this country..doctors, lawyers, schoolteachers.

Pot calling kettle black.

Balance is sorely needed on this blog and, thankfully, a few of us give it.

Lying liars and the lies they tell. Dhimi diane finally made the grade.

LOL man is WETBACK phukkin pathetic or what? I gave you evidence straight from the people who founded this country,not the religious hijakckers you seem to want to “listen to”. And after reading your final(and I do mean final)sentence I can see that you really must be very,very “christlike” yourself by calling someone a “fukking jew”. Nice try but not even close so I have no clue what a talmud is and if it is another book of fairy tales I’ll take a pass. It must be nice being so holy and full of love for an invisible guy(sorta like a subliminal sexless homo type set-up)that you can bury your head in the sand and lash out at everyone else. I’m sure you hate all jews,muslims,buddhists and anyone else who prays and follows those “other silly religions”! So remember spankboy until proven elsewise there must be sperm present somewhere in order for a baby to be born. Until that happens the rest of the normal world will continue to live their lives and you can keep dreaming and fantasizing about holy spirits and virgins that have babies and dead guys that come back and fly up to the sky. OK? Don’t forget to do what christians do best now,wait for a hurricane or a tsunami and then run around telling the rest of us that god sent it"to get rid of the garbage in the world!”

Bye now,make sure ya go load up on your sulphuric acid so your supply doesn’t run low. Watch out for CHUPACABRAS too I hear that they are multiplying rapidly and this is a sign of “the final days”. OOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo I am so scared! One might suggest you take a quick trip out to San Diego too and get a pic of that cross before it comes down. Who knows maybe you can get your pals to have another SPECIAL SUNDAY NIGHT session of congress to halt the removal process!