Update: ACLU vs Lakeview Elementary School
Posted on October 25, 2006
Cross Posted from Revealing the ACLU: Last Month I wrote about the ACLU attacks on a small Tennessee School, Lakeview Elementary School, for permitting student and parent lead prayer.
While there have been no real changes in the stance of the ACLU or the School, there have been some interesting responses from the school.
The following from 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.
This evening’s prayer rally at the school was organized by Mount Juliet Commissioner Glen Linthicum. He considers the gathering a way for the community to take a stand against the ACLU, which is suing on behalf of an anonymous family that is upset over, among other things, prayers around the school flagpole, a National Day of Prayer event, and a group of parents who pray regularly for students.
Linthicum 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.’”
Good for them – though it will likely inflame the overall situation, I admire the resolve and determination that the two as a whole has shown in support of the local school. Mount Juliet has joined the ranks of an ever increasing number of small cities which are standing up to the ACLU. I do not know if the passage of the Public Expression of Religion Act has emboldened them or if, like the city commissioner said, people are standing up where previously the where silent.
The Alliance Defense Fund is defending the Wilson County School District against the ACLU’s legal action. 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.
Linthicum’s response to these claims is not a denial but an assertion, that Muslim, Jewish, and Hindu students have “a constitutional right to pray or to read their scriptures at school on their own time, but so do Christians!” He says it is “outrageous” that the ACLU would seek to ban Christianity from the school grounds.
I will continue to provide updates as this case moves forward. I do not expect the ACLU or Mount Juliet and the ADF to back down. I expect we will see this brought to court in the coming months.
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In a fine example of not only the ACLU hypocrisy, but the Liberal media as well. On about October 13th a local paper The News Journal (Delaware), printed a front page article showning a Muslim student from a local public school kneeling and praying right in front of the school. The article was about the Muslum religious time of Ramedan, and told of how the students must try to balance their school work with athletics, as well as finding time and a place at the school for their daily prayers. Not ONE frigging word over the last two weeks from the ACLU or the non-Christian whiners who were so quick to claim offense and unconstitutionality when the Christian board of the Indian River school said a prayer at their school. The silence is deafening and sickening. I wrote to the papers editor and said isn’t it amazing how deafening the silence is when a non-Christian student is shown on the front page praying on school property, which is their constitutional right as well as Christians, yet we hear not a single word from the ACLU or other anti-religion groups. They never printed a word of my letter to the editor. In fact, I strangly havent seen ANY letters printed with the same observation as mine or of complaint from the anti-religious.
As a school teacher, I would be glad to know that parents and other individuals praying for me and others while at school.
I feel that the ACLU is REALLY BUTTING their noses into something that is really none of their business, it’s like putting GOD on trial. That’s really stupid, for he’s in the hearts of his people and a wonderful comforting spirit that makes us feel safe just knowing he’s there. He can’t be seen except through his people by the good things and the wonderful spirit he is. Although he did live 2000 years ago he now lives in our hearts. I feel that the parents who prayed at the Lakeview Elementry school done just what they should have done for they only prayed to protect their children from the evils of satan, which are:
drugs, guns, homosexuality, bulling from other kids, and no matter what anyone says there is still bullying in our schools. I’M AN EMPLOYEE OF A SCHOOL system and I still see a lot of bullying in that school. I’m not afraid of standing up for the god I love and THE power of prayer for I as a parent and a grandparent, I’ve seen it work. A few years back my daughter had several accidents at the time she was with child, GOD saved her and my grandchild. she had this wreck on our state highway system and then on a back road once. But with GOD’s help and with the power of prayer both her and the two grandchildren were not harmed in anyway, so don’t say that prayer does not have power. So the next time you throw a horse fit over a few parents using prayer to protect their children from the evil of this world and from our public schools then I hope you fall and break a leg. As the old saying goes when your on stage. { SOMEONE WOULD SAY BEFORE YOU’D GO ON STAGE {BREAK A LEG!} If you don’t want to hear the prayer or pledge allegiance to the flag that means freedom then don’t, but don’t stop those who believe in GOD or our flag of freedom. That’s what our soldiers keep fighting for is to keep those liberals from coming over here and making us do what they would like us to do instead of what we have been doing for centuries, so the next time you open your mouth to condem those of us who love the Lord and believe in the power of prayer or to condem GOD then look around and see just how free you are. The only thing I see is wrong is WHAT WE AS PEOPLE ALLOW TO CONTINUE TO GO ON AROUND US, AND TO ALLOW GROUPS LIKE THE ACLU TO DICTATE HOW WE LIVE AND WHAT WE ARE ALLOWED TO SAY AND WHO WE PRAY TO! SO TO THE ACLU, STOP DODGING THE THE LORD OF LORDS, KING OF KINGS AND THE ONES WHO LOVE HIM AND WANT TO TALK TO HIM. IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT GO TO SAUDI ARABIA, IRAN or PAKISTAN, WE DON’T NEED OR WANT YOU HERE {GET -OUT}