So long as the school administration is not directly involved in the organization of any of these activities and no student or teacher is forced to participate without consent, and so long as it does not interfere with the regulary scheduled activities of the school day or pose a danger to anybody’s physical safety, these folks should be able to gather as they see fit.

We don’t have laws dictating the nature of public gatherings in the United States

The report didn't mention who won the examples of previous lawsuits (FFRF won). They also never discuss the reasons for the lawsuits and how it may impact the non-Christian student or faculty body. Always about me and mine and screw everybody else.

I agree fully with FFRF on this. Religion has no place in public schools in the first place but they keep playing with this idea and have for years. I suspect that the current administration has a lot to do with this because I saw a PBS program last night on TV that went into great detail about "prayer breakfasts" that were popular now all over. Politics has embraced it fully and even Mitch McConnell is involved. Trump and his GOP are setting it up to get what they want and desire out of the believers. Frankly, it should be against the law. I'm not anxious for Casper the Friendly Ghost to decide things for me. Public schools are also not a place to be told about gods.

They've been doing a similar thing at our local school district for years and years now. They call it Pray Around The Pole or something to that effect. They come to school early one day at the beginning of the year, and students, teachers and parents gather around the flag pole to pray for a good school year blah blah blah. And though it's not mandatory, I've always looked at it as a sort of litmus test; to see who is the most "godly". That's their new word, "Godly". I hear it all the time around here. They love to talk about how "godly" one another is.

According to other news sources the event was not sponsored by the school and none of the teachers or staff was involved. It was a Sunday event organized by community members for the public and had nothing to do with the school except that it was held in the school gymnasium. The event has been held every year for five years. Because of all the hullabaloo this years event was swamped by hundreds of attendees.

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My prediction is that the case will be thrown out of court as groundless, but we won’t hear a peep about that from the national news media. For the present though it makes a great target for the spewing of hatred toward Alabama.

Carry on with your tirades.

Hopefully TST will show up and hold their own pre-school worship.... Hail Satan!!!

Fucking Alabama.

Every time that religion is involved in government results in an immediate violation of human rights. Even our founders that were religious knew this which is why they only mention religion in the constitution in its exclusion

#SEPARATIONOFCHURCHANDSTATE What is so fucking hard to understand about that?

I don't have kids but I'd be blazing mad if some public school tried to forcibly indoctrinate my kid into any religion.

Why do they feel they have to push it onto everyone why can't they just leave everyone else alone. It is like a cult not happy untill every one joins!

Which religions are they addressing? Hindu, Muslims, Christians all forms of them? Do the Atheist get recognized too? Why don't they just go Humanization night?

Thank Goodness For FFRF !!

Is it mandatory? If not I really don’t care.

Fucking Alabama, why am I not surprised?????

It continues to be a never ending battle.

WTH?! Love the response from our people.