District Finally Stands Up To ACLU

The Santa Rosa County, FL, School District has agreed to gut an ACLU-inspired consent decree they imposed on students and faculty several years ago.   The school district is paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to settle a legal challenge to their decision that banned ordinary phrases such as "God bless" from their campuses.

The settlement was announced by the nonprofit Liberty Counsel, which represented faculty and students in the district after the ACLU decree was adopted several years ago.  The consent decree that led to criminal indictments against school employees for prayer and banned 'God Bless' will now be gutted and revised, according to the announcement by the Liberty Counsel.

Mathew D. Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel and dean of Liberty University School of Law said a significant part of the problem arose from the previous agreement between the school district and the ACLU. It stipulated that teachers and staff were "on duty" no matter where they were or when, as long as any student was present.

That meant they were not allowed to express any statement of faith during volunteer events such as Fellowship of Christian Athletes meetings, a local church service or a basketball game in a neighboring town if any student was present.

"It was like a classroom setting [all the time]," Staver explained. "They couldn't pray. They couldn't bow their heads. They couldn't talk about God.  They weren't even allowed to hit 'reply' if an e-mail from a parent mentioned God or said 'God bless you."

The school's policy was so Draconian that it prompted the Florida legislature to adopt a law that will prevent school districts from adopting any agreements that infringe on the rights of their students or employees without written permission from those parties.

Members of the 2009 graduating class at Pace expressed their objections to the ACLU restrictions on statements of religious faith by rising up en masse at their ceremony and reciting the Lord's Prayer.  God bless those students.  They are more intelligent the School board and the ACLU.

The ACLU and the socialist left hate God and Christians.  They can't spew their socialist agenda on free Christians who believe in God.

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