We've all heard about clubs, teams, or student organizations in public schools like Beta Club, Math Team, or National Honor Society.
How about Baptist Club, Methodist Team, or, perhaps, Koran Scripture Chasers?
Any of these -- or many more -- could become a reality if Kentucky House Bill 8 of 2009, pre-filed yesterday by Rep. Melvin Henley, becomes law. It would also require school districts to create policies to facilitate prayers at school events and throughout the school day by volunteer student "leaders."
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Is this how you want God put back in schools?
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Evidently Rep. Henley isn't familiar with the US Constitution. Here's a refresher to help Rep. Henley remember the Constitution that he took an oath to uphold and defend--not attack.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Then there's cannabis-smoking Thomas Jefferson's New Year's Day letter to the Danbury Baptist. Jefferson wrote:
"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man & his god, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state.
Thomas Jefferson – in a letter to Danbury Baptist association in Connecticut, Jan. 1, 1802" http://www.usconstitution.net/jeffwall.html
American values must be a hard pill for Rep. Henley to swallow.
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