Never Trust A Christian (Actual title of the article)

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Bastrop High School promised to obey the law against school-led prayer at official events, although they were also petty and mean about it, and have been making life hellish for the young man who complained. Now here's the surprise (not): in an official function called Senior Night, they announced a moment of silence…and then said a Christian prayer anyway, to the cheers of the Christian majority. Never mind that it was illegal, never mind that they broke their agreement; religious sanctimony trumps all.

And we have video.

I suspect that at the official graduation ceremony tomorrow, they'll also manage to get someone up there to lead the school in sectarian proselytization and social pressure, and they won't even care that it's discriminatory.

I do hope they get sued.

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I suppose I should start including general explanations for the terminally obtuse.

There is no proscription against individual prayer. If 99.9% of the students had taken advantage of the moment of silence to bow their heads and beg Jesus to help them get laid after the kegger that night, NO PROBLEM.

There is a proscription against compelling EVERYONE to participate in sectarian prayer. When someone stands up and announces that we're all going to ask Jesus Christ for a blessing, PROBLEM.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/05/never_trust_a_christian.php

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As one of the commenters to this article stated,

"Don't worry PZ, any minute now there will be an overwhelming tide of condemnation of these people from the true Christians who are nice people who wouldn't stand for this sort of bullying behavior.

Any minute now..."