Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Republican accused of visiting brothels David Vitter defends public school’s unconstitutional ‘prayer boxes’


http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/republican-accused-of-visiting-brothels-defends-public-schools-unconstitutional-prayer-boxes/

David Vitter criticizes gay marriage while failing to note his own infidelities.

Senator David Vitter (R-LA) is coming to the defense of a public school accused of proselytizing students by hanging “prayer boxes” around campus and affixing its newsletter and website with religious messages, Fox10 reports.
The ACLU accuses Airline High School in Bossier Parish of pushing Christianity on students with “prayer boxes” that are placed throughout the school. The boxes say “prayer requests” and bear a Christian cross, the Friendly Atheist reports.
“I think it’s vital that we stand up and fight back against these attempts to trample on Louisianians’ right to freedom of religion,” Vitter said in a statement to Fox10. “It’s quite clear that the ACLU fails to recognize that students have the right to pray in school as long as their praying does not interfere with the school’s teaching mission or with the rights of their fellow students. And trying to keep a principal from saying ‘God Bless’ is just ridiculous.”
The ACLU says the school is crossing the line.
“This letter is to inform you that these practices violate the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and comparable provisions of the Louisiana Constitution, and they must stop immediately,” the ACLU wrote in a letter. ”
The ACLU went on to note that a message posted to the school’s website by the principal closed with the phrase “May God bless you all” and that an organization called Fellowship of Christian Athletes put the prayer boxes up with the knowledge and consent of school administrators.
“The Constitution forbids school-sponsored prayer in order to protect those whose convictions differ from government-sanctioned beliefs. Public school employees are not entitled to use their government positions to promote and impose their personal religious beliefs on students. When school staff crosses the constitutional line, as the Airline principal has done by religious messaging and encouraging prayer, the courts have declared these activities unlawful,” the ACLU wrote, citing case law.
i really hope it's becoming more clear the hypocrisy of the religious right and their claims of being denied their religious freedoms.  but all you ever read about is just that their making the fraudulent claim and their efforts to do what they are doing to everyone else KIM DAVIS ring any bells???? does constitutional law they claim so much adherence to seem not so much of a concern to them???

we are being lied to by the entire right wing political or faux religious makes no difference their motivation is manipulation what better group then the religious gullible to practice their theory on.
G W Bush, "you can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones you want to concentrate on", it works their base keeps coming back for nothing but the light is on at the tunnel's end and some are no longer in the grip millennials are leading the Exodus from the party and it's personal religious branch of evangelicals.