BBB:The Old Rebels

   According to USA Today, the South is going to rise again. For at
this time, all over the South, colleges and high schools are simply
thumbing their noses at a Supreme Court ruling in May that banned
prayer before football games. The defiance is getting enthusiastic
support. We read from October 10, 1989, "Public school officials in the
Bible belt are getting standing ovations for ignoring a Federal ban on
pre-game prayers. `It was the first time I ever heard applause for a
prayer,' says Bill Joseph, Montgomery County Commission Chairman.
`Telling me I can't pray at a high school game or any other gathering
is an infringement on my rights.'" Amen.

   Churches in Parry, Georgia "bused in two hundred people to a Houston
County Georgia Board of Education in the last month to support prayer
in school and the continuance of religious clubs on school grounds. The
Houston County Board voted to uphold the right of religious clubs to
meet at the school but prohibited the invocation of football games this
fall. `You have a public that says to defy the courts,' says Houston
County School's Chief Harold Chapman, `then you get legal advice that
says that the board violates the courts and the board and the
individual members are liable.'

   "The American Civil Liberties Union is considering court action
against schools throughout the South that challenge the ban of
invocations."

   The ACLU says this: "It's a very old principle that shouldn't have
taken us over two hundred years to figure out, the State is not
supposed to be involved in promoting or establishing religion."

   Praying at a school gathering is not "promoting religion" or
"establishing religion." The ACLU (the American Communists Lovers'
Union) is simply denying the rights of free speech to free Americans.
No religion is promoted or established by a man praying, and it
shouldn't take anybody two hundred years to learn that. As a matter of
fact, it shouldn't have taken those dumb blockheads in the ACLU twenty
minutes to learn that. Anybody could have learned that by reading a
dictionary.
