Think Globally, Act Locally
Posted on October 24, 2006
Tenn. City Official: ACLU Picked Wrong School District for Anti-Christian Attack
By Allie Martin
October 24, 2006(AgapePress) – Hundreds of people are expected to turn out for a prayer rally tonight in one Tennessee town to show support for a school district that has been sued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The Wilson County School District is being sued for allegedly promoting religious activities at Lakeview Elementary School in Mount Juliet, Tennessee.
I applaud those people. ACLU lawsuits are like everything else we digest in a complex world — just something that happens to somebody else. But when it happened to them, they were willing to show up and — gasp! — pray.
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A city commissioner] thinks many of the people in his community were, like himself, aware of liberal attacks like this from a distance without feeling really involved — until now. “We watched these issues on TV; we watched them on the national news, where they were going on in California, going on in New York,” he says. But this time the issue “turned up in our backyard.”And that proximate challenge is what has “really gotten the people in Tennessee and middle Tennessee really involved in this, and myself included,” the city commissioner observes. “If this is in our backyard,” he says, “we can no longer be silent or be that ’silent majority.’”
Hey, I’ve been saying that all along.
Possibly, [the commissioner] speculates, the American Civil Liberties Union and its attorneys decided to attack his community’s schools because the group saw it as easy prey. “Maybe they thought that the Wilson County School District would roll over in fright to the big, bad ACLU,” he says. “We are a small community just outside of Nashville.”
However, the commissioner believes the ACLU miscalculated — and its lawsuit, he contends, is frivolous. “I think they chose an area that they thought would just roll over for them, and they chose wrong,” [the commissioner] says. “I really do.”
We’re with you. So what did they get sued over?
The liberal group’s lawsuit alleges that a student at Lakeview Elementary School suffered damages from the school’s alleged endorsement and promotion of a Prayer at the Flagpole event, a National Day of Prayer event, the activities of a “Praying Parents” group, teacher-led classroom prayers, and a Christian theme and overtly religious songs at a Christmas program.
Damages? Horrors. People praying. In public. Near a flag. And Christmas songs at Christmas! Finish this sentence: Religious songs are to a Christmas program as ______ are to _________. Good for these folks to have a sense of community, tradition, culture, and backbone.
[cross-posted at CourtZero]
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I have to give the people of Wilson County School District three cheers. I have not read about this in the media yet. I guess they believe it is not news anyone would want to hear, or at least news that they want anyone to hear
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