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ACLU Tells Schools to Stop Prayer Before Football Games

The ACLU never tires of meddling with the religious freedom of others:

The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee sent letters this week to several local school superintendents calling on them to stop school-sponsored prayer before football games…

“Our experience is that many public school administrators and educators struggle with how the constitutional guarantees of religious freedom apply to prayer during their school-sponsored events,” said Hedy Weinberg, the ACLU’s executive director…

In a later interview, Weinberg said the organization sent out letters to 135 county and city school superintendents and directors in the state after reading reports from East Tennessee of coaches publicly endorsing prayer before games, which two Supreme Court decisions said violated the rights of those who didn’t want to take part.

And, here at The Fix our experience is that the ACLU “struggles” whenever people express their faith publicly. And they do their best to squash it out.

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