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08-20-2009, 10:22 PM
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Florida Principal, AD Could Go to Jail for Prayer
Anyone keeping up with what is happening in this case?
Florida Principal, Athletic Director Could Go to Jail for Prayer Before Lunch at School
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Print ShareThisA principal and an athletic director in Florida could be charged with crimes and spend six months in jail after they prayed before a meal at a school event, the Washington Times reported.
Pace High School Principal Frank Lay and athletic director Robert Freeman will go on trial in federal district court Sept. 17. They're accused of violating the conditions of a lawsuit settlement reached last year with the American Civil Liberties Union, according to the Times.
Local pastors and some students and teachers are outraged that Lay and Freeman face criminal charges, and they have protested during graduation ceremonies, the newspaper said.
"I have been defending religious freedom issues for 22 years, and I've never had to defend somebody who has been charged criminally for praying," said Mathew Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, the Christian-based legal group that is defending the two school officials.
But an ACLU official said the Santa Rosa County School District has been guilty of "flagrant" First Amendment violations for years, the Times reported.
"The defendants all admitted wrongdoing," said Daniel Mach, ACLU's director of litigation for its freedom of religion program. "For example, the Pace High School teachers handbook asks teachers to 'embrace every opportunity to inculcate, by precept and example, the practice of every Christian virtue.'"
The case stems from a Jan. 28 incident in which Lay, a local Baptist church deacon, asked Freeman to offer mealtime prayers at a lunch for school employees. Staver said no students were there and the event took place on school property after hours.
Oh for the doubters here is the link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,...est=latestnews
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08-20-2009, 10:26 PM
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Re: Florida Principal, AD Could Go to Jail for Pra
Good!!! I always wonder why more christians don't go to jail for standing up for Jesus.
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He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
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08-20-2009, 10:27 PM
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Re: Florida Principal, AD Could Go to Jail for Pra
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Originally Posted by Cindy
Good!!! I always wonder why more christians don't go to jail for standing up for Jesus.
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Cindy, girl you are just bad. lol 
But I get your point.
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08-20-2009, 10:30 PM
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Re: Florida Principal, AD Could Go to Jail for Pra
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Cindy, girl you are just bad. lol
But I get your point. |
Don't we think God can still open jail doors?
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
Last edited by Cindy; 08-20-2009 at 10:31 PM.
Reason: punctuation
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08-21-2009, 12:27 PM
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Re: Florida Principal, AD Could Go to Jail for Pra
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Don't we think God can still open jail doors?
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I still believe He can keep us out of jail also. 
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08-21-2009, 12:29 PM
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Re: Florida Principal, AD Could Go to Jail for Pra
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I still believe He can keep us out of jail also. |
This is true, Thank you Jesus.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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