Yes, I am offended!

I FIND IT INTERESTING THAT A HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL CAN SEE THE PROBLEM, WHILE, APPARENTLY, OUR SOCIETY CAN NOT. IF I OFFENDED ANYONE BY THIS, I REALLY DON'T CARE.
This is a statement that was read over the PA system at the football game at Roane County High School , Kingston , Tennessee , by school Principal, Jody McLeod "It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football games, to say a prayer and play the National Anthem, to honor God and Country."Due to a recent ruling by the Supreme Court, I am told that saying a Prayer is a violation of Federal Case Law. As I understand the law at this time, I can use this public facility to approve of sexual perversion and call it "an alternate lifestyle," and if someone is offended, that's OK.I can use it to condone sexual promiscuity, by dispensing condoms and calling it, "safe sex." If someone is offended, that's OK. I can even use this public facility to present the merits of killing an unborn baby as a "viable! Means of birth control." If someone is offended, no problem...I can designate a school day as "Earth Day" and involve students in activities to worship religiously and praise the goddess "Mother Earth" and call it "ecology." I can use literature, videos and presentations in the classroom that depicts people with strong, traditional Christian convictions as "simple minded" and "ignorant" and call it "enlightenment."However, if anyone uses this facility to honor GOD and to ask HIM to Bless this event with safety and good sportsmanship, then Federal Case Law is violated.This appears to be inconsistent at best, and at worst, diabolical. Apparently, we are to be tolerant of everything and anyone, except GOD and HIS Commandments. Nevertheless, as a school principal, I frequently ask staff and students to abide by rules with which they do not necessarily agree. For me to do otherwise would be inconsistent at best, and at worst, hypocritical... I suffer from that affliction enough unintentionally. I certainly do not need to add an intentional transgression. For this reason, I shall "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's," and refrain from praying at this time." However, if you feel inspired to honor, praise and thank GOD and ask HIM, in the name of JESUS, to Bless this event, please feel free to do so As far as I know, that's not against the law----yet." One by one, the people in the stands bowed their heads, held hands with one another and began to pray.They prayed in the stands. They prayed in the team huddles. They prayed at the concession stand and they prayed in the Announcer's Box!The only place they didn't pray was in the Supreme Court of the United States of America- the Seat of "Justice" in the "one nation, under GOD." Somehow, Kingston, Tennessee Remembered what so many have forgotten. We are given the Freedom OF Religion, not the Freedom FROM Religion. Praise GOD that HIS remnant remains!JESUS said, "If you are ashamed of ME before men, then I will be ashamed of you before MY FATHER."
If you are not ashamed, pass this on. I'm not one bit ashamed to pass this on


SilverWolf's Response:

I am offended! You can continue to teach your children to violate the law of the land and to applaud those who do so if you like. There is a proper time and place to contest laws that you feel are wrong. However, at a local public high school, or an event hosted by, and at, a public high school is not a proper venue for such actions. I try to teach my children to obey the law first, and then to follow lawful procedures that are in place to bring change to those laws they think are unjust. This school principal is certainly not a princi"pal" to "all" the students who attend his school, only to those who consider themselves "Christians" it would seem. Therefore, I feel that he does not deserve to be in the position that he holds, he surely doesn't teach the students to respect "all" people and their civil rights. He it would seem teaches them, or advocates teaching them to only consider the civil rights of those who identify themselves as "Christians"; for they are the only ones who matter. I do not even know why I find this behavior surprising; it is typical of the Christian faiths continued intolerance of any religion not their own. It is our way or to hell with you! If you people want to pray to the Christian God and Jesus at your child's school and school sponsored events; if you want to openly practice Christian religious rites at your child's school or school sponsored events, then by all means send them to a Christian school. There are parochial schools all over the place. The local public school and public school system, however, is not the place for these types of activities. Get used to it, and learn to accept it. Yes, this country guarantees the freedom of religion, all religions, and that is why there are churches of all types of faiths all over the land. If you feel the need to worship then go to your faiths church and do so, or go to your home and do so. The local public high school football game, however, is not the place to go to worship your deity. The local public high school football game is where you go to watch your child's local public high school's football team play football to win, while their friends and families cheer them on, hopefully to victory. I believe if people were to spend more time reading their bibles they would see that they are missing a very important lesson therein. God wants "personal" relationships with his followers, and he wants "willing" followers. This desire for "personal" relationships is why he teaches his willing followers that when they pray to, go into their inner room, and after closing the door, to pray to their father who is in secret, so that their father who sees in secret, will repay them. He then also teaches his followers that when they pray they are not to be as the hypocrites, because they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners, (or perhaps at local public high school football games) in order to be seen by men. He further teaches that those who do so have their payment in full. I would think that what he means by that is that their payment is the adoration and possibly even applause of those adoring fans of this hypocrisy all around them. Why do I say this? You see and hear the question all the time; "What would Jesus do?" Do you think that Jesus would have taken part in that little show? I don't think so. I don't think so because of who was glorified in that show that took place at that stadium that night. God was not glorified in that show. All those people who took part in that show, they are who was glorified. They were not worshiping God in their acts. They were participating in an act of defiance against a law that they felt was unjust. I have read and studied the bible for many, many years, as I know countless others have. I guess though however the Jesus that I came to know is not the same person that everyone else met in their studies. Why do I say that, well, because the Jesus that I came to know by reading the bible was a considerably different person than that I see being put forth in the actions of those that now call themselves Christians. The Jesus I came to know didn't go around endorsing violating the law of the land. And he most certainly did not incite, encourage nor advocate others to do so. I also don't believe that if he disagreed with some particular law that he would advocate much less participate in the violating of it to show his objections to it. I believe that he would instead, suggest that you go about seeking that change which is desired by using the lawful procedures that are provided and in place. Jesus was not a militant man as best I can tell, seems to me that before he began his ministry he was a carpenter. In other words he was a constructive man, not a destructive man. He was a peaceful, constructive law abiding man. He was not concerned with whether or not you could stand and make a public spectacle of yourself by standing and praying before an audience. He further most definitely did not try to force a captive audience into listening to his teachings (or prayers obviously). He wanted, or wants personal and private relationships with his followers. He traveled all about the land teaching any and all that came to him to hear him and learn. Note that these people came to him with the expressed intent and desire to hear him and his teachings, not to watch a public schools football game. This is the way that he instructed his apostles as well. No captive audiences there like you would find at a public schools event. You only had willing people interested in and desiring to hear their teachings. And those teachings were being held in a lawful manner and place. As to the captive audience thing, yes, the people at that event who were not Christians were a captive audience. They should not have had to endure in any way the arrogant actions of those there who called themselves Christians. Furthermore, to suggest that if they didn't want to participate in, or listen to, this open public performance of a religious rite then they didn't have to stay, or be there, is at the very least typical of the mindset of those who now call themselves Christians. Not everyone who attends a public school is a Christian. That is why it is a "public" school and not a "Christian" school. All faiths have the right to be at public school events; parents, friends, family members and students. And yes, the actions of all those at that stadium that evening who participated in that show, advocated and encouraged, by that school's principal was hurtful to some adults and children in attendance. But obviously that fact is of no concern to those fine upstanding Christian people is it? Nor is it of any concern to you as you stressed in this message that you so boldly put out on the internet for all to see. I am sure that God and Jesus is very proud of you for this. So, go ahead and walk about proudly with your chin held high, pounding upon your chest for the brave good deed that you have done for your God. I myself would be ashamed to call myself a Christian if I had done this, or found this to be something to be proud of. But hey, go ahead and continue to further the cause of Christian intolerance and arrogance and by all means, be proud of yourself for it.