Worth reading

[Guest guest]

This is a statement that was read over the PA system at the football

game at Roane County High School, Kingston, Tennessee by school

Principal Jody McLoud, on September 1, 2000. I thought it was worth

sharing with the world, and hope you will forward it to all your friends.

It

clearly shows just how far this country has gone in the wrong direction.

It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football games

to

say a prayer and play the National Anthem to honor God and Country. Due

to a

recent ruling by t he Supreme Court, I am told that saying a prayer is a

violation of Federal Case Law.

As I understand the law at this time, I can use this public facility to

approve of sexual perversion and call it an alternate lifestyle, and

if someone is offended, that's OK.

I can use it to condone sexual promiscuity by dispensing condoms and

calling it safe sex. If someone is offended, that's OK.

I can even use this public facility to present the merits of killing an

unborn baby as a viable means of birth control. If someone is offended,

no

problem.

I can designate a school day as earth day and involve students in

activities

to religiously worship and praise the goddess, mother earth, and call it

ecology.

I can use literature, videos and presentations in the classroom that

depict

people with strong, traditional Christian convictions as simple minded

and ignorant and call it enlightenment.

However, if anyone uses this facility to honor God and ask Him to bless

this

event with safety and good sportsmanship, Federal Case Law is violated.

This appears to be inconsistent at best, and at worst, diabolical.

Apparently, we are to be tolerant of everything and anyone exc

Nevertheless, as a school principal, I frequently ask staff and students

to

abide by rules which they do not necessarily agree. For me to do

otherwise

would be inconsistent at best, and, at worst, hypocritical. I suffer

from

that affliction enough unintentionally. I certainly do not need to add

an

intentional transgression.

For this reason, I shall, " Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, "

and

refrain from praying at this time. However, if you feel inspired to

honor,

praise and thank God, and ask Him in the name of Jesus to bless this

event,

please feel free to do so. As far as I know, that's not against the

law----yet. "

AND...one by one, the people in the stands bowed their heads, held hands

with

one another, and began to pray. They prayed in the stands. They prayed

in

the team huddles. They prayed at the concession stand. And they prayed

in

the announcer's box. The only place they didn't pray was in the Supreme

Court of the United States of America - the seat of

" justice " in the one nation under God.

Somehow, Kingston, Tennessee, remembered what so many have forgotten...

we

are given the Freedom OF Religion, not the Freedom FROM Religion.