has ruled<\/a> once and for all that schools cannot have prayers, invocations or benedictions in their graduations.\u00a0 No matter what.\u00a0This is America after all. That\u2019s good news for liberals and secularists.\u00a0 Especially those, like Americans United for the Separation of Church and State (or more accurately, the Establishment Liberal Religion and State), who want to exploit the SCOTUS\u2019s questionable 1948 decision of religion\u2019s role in America to advance their own religious doctrines and agendas.\u00a0 After all, many see the SCOTUS decision as a blank check to basically push all religious freedom out the door unless it is the religion that conforms to the Gospel of Post-Modern Secularism.\u00a0 <\/p>\nIt\u2019s also good that we continue showing our citizens that what 300 million Americans may want is irrelevant.\u00a0 It\u2019s what you want that matters.\u00a0 Sort of like showing our kids, rather than telling them, that it doesn\u2019t matter what the other kids want to play, it only matters what they want.\u00a0 And if they can\u2019t get what they want, nobody can have anything anyone wants.\u00a0 Is it any wonder that our country is going down the toilet tubes of history? <\/p>\n
FWIW, I can actually see this decision and in another time and place might agree.\u00a0 But since the agendas of those behind the decision have been made clear in recent years, that these decisions are being used to impose doctrines and dogmas held by one exclusive class by using the SCOTUS decision to censor and oppress those who fail to conform, I\u2019m less than agreeable at this point.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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