As a tradition for Bell County High School, a Christian
pastor would lead willing students, fans, and teammates in prayer before
each game, asking God to keep the players safe while playing the high
contact sport. As expected, the 2 percent of atheists were offended by
something they believe doesn’t even exist, so they naturally had to take
the right away from the majority.
In 2011, the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF)
successfully subjugated the majority, forcing the school to ban prayer
at the high school’s athletic events. Essentially, if the atheists don’t
want to do it, no one should be able to do it.
For four years, Bell County High School began sporting
events in silence, refraining from prayer, in fear that it might offend
someone. However, the chaplain must have influenced the students by his
faithful reverence, because the young people decided to do something to
show authorities exactly what they think of banning the pastor from
reciting an opening prayer.
According to The Christian Post, high school students unexpectedly interrupted the kickoff of the first 2015 football game by leading the stadium in prayer.
Defying the atheist group that sought to infringe upon their
religious freedom, the students stood and gathered to bow their heads
on August 21 in the season opener against the Middleboro Yellowjackets.
The display of religious freedom comes just weeks after a petition was filed to allow students and faculty members to pray, in accordance with the First Amendment. The Bell County Board of Education soon realized that the FFRF had no right to prevent students from praying and the decision was overturned.“It’s been a long-standing tradition here at Bell County High School that there be prayer at the football games. Then there was obviously someone who was opposed to it,” Bell County High teacher Samantha Johnson told WKYT. “The prayers were simply usually praying over the players and their safety. There was nothing offensive in the prayers.”
Bell
County High School students used to be led into prayer by a local
chaplain, but now they realize they have to stand up for their own
religious freedom.
“Scheduling prayer at a school-sponsored event is a flagrant violation of the law,” FFRF attorney Rebecca Markert wrote in a letter to the school district. “Given the clear legal precedent on this issue, it is surprising — not to mention baffling — that the school board would knowingly violate the law and bring back prayer before athletic games.”“The Supreme Court specifically struck down student-led invocations given over the loudspeaker at public school football games, because the games are school-sponsored events conducted on school property,” the FFRF argued in a statement.
Although the FFRF are intent on squashing the faith of
others, the head of the school’s football booster club, Joe Hufleet,
expressed his admiration for the student-led prayer, adding that it was
greeted by fans and faculty with a “big eruption of happiness,”
according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.
“We’re letting the minority dictate what we do. It’s not right morally, and it’s not right by our American way,” Humfleet asserted. “We need to go on with what’s right.”
The bullies at the FFRF obviously have no idea of the
students’ rights, and that if they wish to bow their heads, they are
allowed to lead the willing into prayer. No teacher has the right to
force students or other staff to engage in prayer, but even they are
allowed to pray with students if they are willing.
The FFRF’s attempt to revoke the religious rights of the
majority are not only unconstitutional, it is a bitter display of the
lost and confused. If the belief in a God of peace and goodness is
nothing more than a myth to those who do not believe, then why is this
supposed non-existent force so much of a threat?
Once again, the thought police seek to subjugate the masses
to their own religion, a religion that reveres no god and relies on
flawed, manmade morals that are nothing more than an attempt of forced
conformation to secularism.
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