From Fox:
Menace to Society
A group of Christian students was ordered to stop praying outside the U.S. Supreme Court building on May 5 because a court police officer told them it was against the law.
The students were part of a junior high school American History class at Wickenburg Christian Academy in Arizona. After taking pictures on the steps of the Supreme Court building, their teacher gathered them to a side location where they formed a circle and began to pray.
According to Nate Kellum, senior counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, a police officer “abruptly” interrupted the prayer and ordered the group to cease and desist.
“They were told to stop praying because they were violating the law and they had to take their prayer elsewhere,” Kellum told FOX News Radio.
The American History teacher, Maureen Rigo, said she was stunned.
“I was pretty shocked because we’ve prayed there before and it’s never been an issue,” she told FOX News Radio. “His (the police officer’s) comment was ‘I’m not going to tell you that you can’t pray. You just can’t pray here.’”
So the group of 15 students and seven adults left the Supreme Court and relocated to a sidewalk – where Rigo said the children stood in a gutter – and continued their prayer.
“It was just supposed to be a time that we could pray quietly for the Supreme Court, for the decisions they need to make and for our congressmen,” she said. “We kind of feel like our government can use all the prayers it can get.”
“It’s an outrage of the first magnitude,” said Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ). The school is in his congressional district.
“When the day comes that people at the Supreme Court press children off into the gutter before they can pray, it portends a very frightening future for this country,” he told FOX News Radio.
“This police officer acted reprehensibly,” Franks said. “Those students had every right to pray there on the steps of the Supreme Court.”
The Alliance Defense Fund sent a letter to the Supreme Court urging them to stop their police officers from banning prayers.
A spokesperson for the Court said the Marshal of the Court will look into the events alleged by the ADF.
“The Court does not have a policy prohibiting prayer,” said public information officer Kathy Arberg in an email to FOX News Radio.
Sure would be interesting to find out who this cop is, and what his motive was.
5 comments:
If Christians can't pray on the steps of the Supreme Court in their own country how come Muslims were allowed to say prayers for the opening of Virginia state legislature?
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Is it just me or is everything inside out? Individual citizens can't pray or discuss religion with other people on a public sidewalk, but government officials can open an official legislative with a prayer meeting? Conducted by a Muslim? This is totally bass-ackward of what the First Amendment specifies.
The Amendment says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
Now they're doing the opposite. Because that's where the power is.
RRA,
You're right. This is happening because "that's where the power is."
The truth is, they haven't changed the law, because they can't, because even though the Constitution is a "living document", it says what it says.
As is noted in this article, the Capitol Police don't actually have a policy prohibiting prayer, BECAUSE THEY CAN'T HAVE A POLICY PROHIBITING PRAYER.
However, because that's where the power is, they can pretty much do whatever the fuck they want, can't they?
This is abuse of power.
Who's this cop who stopped their prayer, that's what I'd like to know?
Doesn't he realize that the Supreme Court starts every session with a prayer? "God save this honorable court" then they bang the gavel.
Gross and blatant abuse of power, not to mention hipocrisy.
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