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That’s what First Liberty is contending in a lawsuit on behalf of Cambridge Christian School (CCS) of Tampa, Florida.
Filed Tuesday, the lawsuit challenges a ban that prevented CCS and its opponent from opening their state football championship game with a prayer over a loudspeaker last December.
The Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) denied the schools’ request to open their championship game with a prayer over the loudspeaker because they claimed it would violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
That right — guaranteed by the First Amendment’s Free Exercise clause — was violated one night when police officers entered the home of Mary Anne Sause of Louisburg, Kansas and told her to “stop praying” without any legitimate law enforcement reason for doing so.
“No government official should tell someone to stop praying in their own home,” says Kelly Shackelford, First Liberty’s President and CEO.
First Liberty appealed Sause’s case Wednesday to the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. When Sause previously complained about the violation of her First Amendment right before a district court, the judge dismissed her case.
The school district recently directed a bus driver to refrain from playing a Christian radio station while transporting children, television station KFSM first reported.
The edict was handed down after a complaint was filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based assortment of perpetually offended atheists, agnostics, free-thinkers and other radical rabble rousers.
The FFRF alleges they were contacted by a parent who objected to his child listening to contemporary Christian music on Bus 24.
The school district fired off a directive to school administrators ordering them to eradicate anything remotely religious from all public school buildings.
One of my readers sent me a copy of the directive from the Henry County School District that was relayed to the staff at East Lake Elementary School.
“You are hereby directed to remove all items which contain religious symbols, such as crosses, printed bibles, angels, bible verses, printed prayers, and biblical quotations from the common areas, hallways, classrooms, and office of East Lake Elementary School,” the edict read.
When is the second debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump?
The second debate will take place Sunday at Washington University in St. Louis.
What time is the debate and how long will it last?
The debate starts at 9 p.m. E.T. and will go for 90 minutes without commercial breaks.
How can I watch the debate?
The debate will air on major television networks as well as the websites of the leading cable channels and C-SPAN.