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Liberals Are Losing Their Minds Over 5 Words This High School Principal Wrote In A Letter
The war to preserve Christian faith in American society has another battleground. After a high school principal left an uplifting message to his students, he immediately came under attack in yet another lawsuit aimed at stamping out traces of Christianity in the public sphere.
Bossier, City, La. Principal, Jason Rowland, ended a statement on the school’s website writing, “The Future Starts Today – May God Bless You All.” The high school also supports a student-led chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) by allowing them to set up prayer boxes in the school.
It was all too much for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Louisiana. The ACLU wants the boxes with their “Christina symbols” removed and Rowland suitably punished. The Bossier Parish school board will discuss the complaint on Thursday.
In the meantime, supporters of the school are fighting back.
“In my 15 years of life, I have never, EVER, been told that freedom of religion was against the law,” said teen-ager Preston Wyatt on YouTube, urging the school’s supporters to rally at #istandwithAHS and #godsnotdead. “To all of my friends at Airline…I am praying for God’s mercy to prevail during this rough time that y’all have been struck with. Don’t let someone so senseless tell you that you have no place on acknowledging your religion. Just because they do not believe in it does not mean you shouldn’t either.”
Louisiana State Rep. Mike Johnson, R-Bossier City, said the ACLU has its facts wrong, as well as its intentions. The prayer boxes should be allowed because they are a student-driven idea. All student groups have equal access to displays at the school, he said. He also pointed out that students have free speech rights.
“This is typical of the ACLU,” he said. “They’re on a seek-and-destroy mission for all things religious. I hope the school will stand its ground.”
Freedom Guard, a non-profit public interest law firm, has also offered free legal defense to Airline High School, according to KSLA.
Freedom Guard successfully defended the Bossier schools in a lawsuit challenging a nativity display several years ago, Johnson said.
Johnson defended Rowland’s use of the phrase “God bless” as an “an innocuous reference to our religious heritage” much like the mention of God in the Pledge of Allegiance.
“Just because an activist organization in New Orleans trolls the Internet in search of something to be offended by does not mean than any constitutional line has been crossed here or that any behavior should be modified,” Johnson said.
h/t: Fox News
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/liberals-are-losing-their-minds-over-5-words-this-high-school-principal-wrote-in-a-letter/
