Last December the Florida High School Athletic Association refused to allow a private Christian school to deliver a pregame prayer over a loudspeaker before a championship football game.
On Sept. 27 Cambridge Christian School filed a federal lawsuit alleging the FHSAA unlawfully censored the prayer and violated the players’ religious freedoms.
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“This is a case about the restriction of a Christian school’s private speech through a policy and a practice that discriminates between religious and secular speech,” attorney Adam Foslid, with the law firm of Greenberg Traurig, said in a prepared statement.
First Liberty Institute is also representing the Christian school.
The case stems from a Dec. 4th game between Cambridge Christian and University Christian School. The game was played at Camping World Stadium in Orlando.
First Amendment to U.S. Constitution – “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or ABRIDGING the freedom of speech,…”
So just what about “Prohibiting and ABRIDGING” do these Clintonian inspired minions NOT understand???? Is this not the REAL Clinton/Gore Clintonian aBRIDGE to the 20th century they laughed up their sleeves in the offer to condemn America with in Y2K? Clintons sure don’t know the definition of what IS IS,,,but we now understand what they meant by a BRIDGE to the 20th century.,,,the devil is always in their details and the double speak meaning of their offers.
“Prohibit” and “abridge” are being redefined by men in black robes, just like what happened to “infringe”!
To these liberal activist judges, the constitution is an archaic document that needs in THEIR EYES to be ripped up and ignored as often as they can.
Now what gets me is will they also say “you can’t do the whole Kneeling down during the national anthem”./??
Freedom of expression going into the sewer by the liberal TRASH. If the courts rule against this Christian School, I would defy the courts.
The article here left out a couple things.
The game was not held at either school, it was held at a tax payer financed facility and the FHSAA was the host and coordinator and is also considered a state actor. To allow the prayer would have violated Florida law as well.
The players of both teams prayed on the field before the game.
darby, the florida high school athletic association has no jurisdiction over a PRIVATE Christian school, no matter where they hold an event. They are NOT a “state actor”, and have no authority to enforce ANY state law. Besides that, praying in public isn’t against the law, whether you use a microphone or not. You should demand a refund from whatever law school you attended, if any.
let me get this straight.
in a portland oregon elementary school they have a satanic after school club on school property.
but but you cant say a christian prayer before a football game in florida.
the nation is in deep deep dooodoo.
Don’t forget
– You can have Muslim appreciation days
– Love your burka days and celebrations
– Fly the Mexican flags on Cinco de Mayo celebrations and parties
but you can’t honor the US FLAG what so ever. Don’t wanna offend the frikken illegal invaders, can we.
I wasn’t offering an opinion, just adding some info that was left out of this story. The governing body for high school athletics in the state of Florida claimed to be a “state actor” in the original article and both teams prayed on the field before the game without incident.