TN School District Tells Coaches Not to Bow Heads During Prayer

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"The war against free speech and religious liberty took a strange and disturbing twist last Friday in the town of Westmoreland, Tennessee. Four public school football coaches were spotted bowing their heads during a student-led prayer. According to reports, the coaches did not initiate the prayer, nor did they utter a word as the students prayed. For this, they were called on the carpet by school authorities. According to the new policy, the result of an ACLU lawsuit alleging violations of "separation of church and state," staff can be present while students pray, but cannot participate, nor can they even give the appearance of participation - even outside school hours. But is bowing one's head out of respect endorsement of prayer or religion? This is NOT what the Founding Fathers meant when they wrote the 1st amendment to the Constitution. Here's what Joseph Story (one of the founders) said about the intention of writing the 1st amendment: "At the time of the adoption...of the Amendment...the general, if not the universal, sentiment in America was, that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the State." Justice Story continued: "The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less to advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects." I will also add, you can't find ONE, NOT ONE example of the Founding Fathers practicing "separation of church and state" as the modern day courts make us do today.......NOT ONE....I challenge anyone reading this to give me one....just one example from the founding fathers...."