Freedom of Religion Silenced By Political Correctness
Posted on October 10, 2005
City Council has suspended its practice of allowing members to pray aloud before meetings, joining a growing number of government agencies moving away from religion-specific invocations.
Council President Bill Horvath halted the prayers after receiving complaints from people watching the semimonthly meetings on cable television. City Manager Rita McMahon said the viewers complained because a prayer was said “in Jesus’ name.”
Council members had been allowed to lead a prayer of their choosing. Now the council starts meetings with the Pledge of Allegiance.
“Some council members go a little too far with specific Christian prayers,” Horvath said.
Experts say Painesville, about 30 miles northeast of Cleveland, is one of an increasing number of municipalities opting for a more non-denominational prayer at the start of meetings or nothing at all, instead of the traditional Christian-based prayer.
“It’s become more like ‘Let’s all say a prayer to the blessed somebody,”‘ said John Mahoney, a spokesman for the Ohio Municipal League. “But in the end, it’s a matter of local community preference.”
The U.S. Supreme Court in June let stand a 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that barred the town council of Great Falls, S.C., from using Jesus’ name in its prayer before the start of its meetings, finding that it favored one religious denomination.
The American Civil Liberties Union also has sent letters to other municipalities inSouth Carolina asking them to stop mentioning Jesus Christ in prayers before council meetings.
At some point in time political correctness came into America like a virus without a cure, spread by organizations like the ACLU. The founding principles of freedom our Nation was intended to be began to slowy evaporate in the fear of expensive lawsuits. Groups like the ACLU found the weakness in the chain, that of money. They built their arsenal up, and attack those who don’t have money to defend theirselves. Their favorite victims are small schools, communities, and City Counsels. The attitude of defeat envelops these small communities who often give in to the demands, not being able to afford to defend their freedoms.
At some point in time our culture became corrupted to the point that filth, porn, and wickedness became protected rights held higher than morals, values, and tradition. At some point in time vulgarity came to represent freedom of speech, and the name Jesus was something to be ashamed of to say. Well, I propose that NOW be the time that things get turned full circle. Start expressing your religions out in public. Put a cross on your property, pray at restauraunts with your family, praise God loud and clear! Its time to wake up, and stand up for your right America! Don’t just lay down and let the ACLU and athiest run over you! Don’t just let the secularization of our nation take place. Do something!
The Muslim equivalent of the ACLU is CAIR. Both are dangerous organizations with radical agendas for America. One difference: CAIR fights for Muslims to express their religion, ACLU fights against the majority of Americans to express theirs.
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Hi Jay, good read. I would add that CAIR also seeks to force Americans to not only recognize, but respect Islam through legislation. What happens to “separation of church and state” when it comes to any religion other than Christianity?
As Mortimer Adler, philosopher for the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies wrote, to have one world government you need a one world culture. Judaism and Christianity are unacceptable because of their moral codes. The Eastern religions are acceptable because they lack one. Spirituality is to be the substitute for the monotheistic religions. Now you know the rest of the story.
Its not really an issue of freedom of religion when its about the government establishing religion.
Practice your personal religious beliefs at home or church/temple/sinagog/place of worship, not in government meetings, seperation of church and state remember? I don’t see a problem with saying your prays at a restauraunts. I say Political correctness has gone to far in the conservative direction. With the censoring of media.
No, you say your prayers at home, I’ll say mine wherever I want to.