Part II The Left’s Assault On American Values

Senior Citizens Inc. officials said last Friday the meals they are contracted by the city to provide to Ed Young Senior Citizens Center visitors are mostly covered with federal money, which ushers in the burden of separating church and state.   According to them this means the senior citizens cannot pray before the meal.

Tim Rutherford, Senior Citizens Inc. vice president said some of his staff recently visited the center and noticed people praying shortly before lunch was served. Rutherford said his company provides meals like baked chicken, steak tips and rice and salads at a cost of about $6 a plate. Seniors taking the meals pay 55 cents and federal money foots the rest of the bill, Rutherford said.

"We can't scoff at their rules," he said of federal authorities. "It's a part of the operational guidelines."

Port Wentworth, GA Mayor Jones said he was outraged by the change and has promised to find a solution.

"It was one of the hardest things I ever did as mayor is to look those people in the eyes and ask them to be patient with me and honor their God in a moment of silence until I can have a resolution to this," Jones said. "For me to look at their eyes and tell them they can't thank God for their food it's unheard of - I can't take it."

"Like one lady said, 'you can stop me from speaking, but you can't stop me from praying what's in my heart,"' he said. "But the best answer right now is that we're trying to get the best information possible and legal council is looking at what would happen if we continued to pray."

UPDATE-Senior citizens can now say their prayer before the meal, there was too much negative publicity.  Still this shows the lefts assault on Christians.  How could this ever be brought up?  Show me where in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights it says that you can’t pray aloud.  Show me where it says a separation of church and state.  It doesn’t!!!  This is a liberal left attempt to remove Christianity from America.

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