Federal Judge Says No To Prayer At High School Graduation...

Gotta be super careful about saying..."the majority wants it that way..." because not everything the majority wants is fair, let alone legal.

Prefacing the following remarks with the incontrovertable fact that I believe the ACLU does far, afar more harm than good. They are, at heart, communists who would berift us of many unalienable rights, and free speech is only free when they happen to agree with what is being speeched. Everyone else can go screw themselves, and this is what makes the ACLU dangerous. Selective interpretation is always wrong, case closed, and it isn't just the ACLU that is guilty.


A federal judge on Friday blocked the inclusion of prayer as part of Russell County High School's graduation ceremonies.

U.S. District Judge Joseph McKinley granted a temporary restraining order sought by a student who doesn't want prayer to be part of the graduation exercises on Friday.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit on behalf of the unidentified student on Tuesday. ACLU attorney Lili Lutgens said any clergy-led prayer would be unconstitutional because it would endorse a specific religion and religious views.

"Once again the ACLU deny the rights of the majority to appease the over sensitive feelings of one lone individual."

As always, forget the bad English and focus upon the facts. The vast majority were aghast when Rosa Parks did her thing, so numbers don't mean squat all by their lonesome. Some 140 years or so ago, the majority of Southern States, well, lets not go there. Society's interpretations evolve along with the passing years, and of course all change isn't good simply for the sake of change. As long as I'm not there, I don't give a flying blivet who says what prayer at what ceremony, but it always makes me somewhat queasy when people feel the need to become exhibitionists and take their private lives out in the open. A place for everything and everything in it's place seems to be as DOA as simple manners, and that's a shame.

As always, opposing viewpoints are welcome, because it is the job of all of us to shoot the messenger sometimes.