This has religious tones to it, so if you are offended, please don't read on....<P>I didn't take the time yet to clean up the copy... I just wanted to post this right away. <BR>Butterfly<P>This is a statement that was read over the PA system at the football game<BR>at Roan County High School, Kingston, Tennessee by school Principal<BR>Jody McLoud, on September 1, 2000. I think it is worth sharing with the<BR>world, and hope you will forward it to all your friends. It clearly shows<BR>just how far this country has gone in the wrong direction:<P> "It has always been the custom at Roan County High School football<BR>games to say a prayer and play the National Anthem to honor God and<BR>Country.<P>Due to a recent ruling by the Supreme Court, I am told that saying<BR>a prayer is a violation of Federal Case Law. As I understand the law at<BR>this time, I can use this public facility to approve of sexual perversion<BR>and call it an alternate life style, and if someone is offended, that's<BR>OK.<P>I can use it to condone sexual promiscuity by dispensing condoms<BR>and calling it safe sex. If someone is offended, that's OK.<P>I can even use this public facility to present the merits of killing an<BR>unborn baby as a viable means of birth control. If someone is offended,<BR>no<BR>problem.<P>I can designate a school day as earth day and involve students in<BR>activities to religiously worship and praise the goddess, mother earth,<BR>and call it<BR>ecology.<P>I can use literature, videos and presentations in the classroom that<BR>depict<BR>people with strong, traditional, Christian convictions as simple-minded<BR>and<BR>ignorant and call it enlightenment.<P>However, if anyone uses this facility to honor God and ask Him to bless<BR>this event with safety and good sportsmanship, Federal Case Law is<BR>violated.<P>This appears to be inconsistent at best, and at worst, diabolical.<P>Apparently, we are to be tolerant of everything and anyone except<BR>God and His Commandments.<P>Nevertheless, as a school principal, I frequently ask staff and students<BR>to<BR>abide by rules which they do not necessarily agree. For me to do<BR>otherwise<BR>would be inconsistent at best, and at worst, hypocritical. I suffer from<BR>that affliction enough unintentionally. I certainly do not need to add an<BR>intentional transgression.<P>For this reason, I shall, "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's,"<BR>and<BR>refrain from praying at this time. However, if you feel inspired to<BR>honor,<BR>praise and thank God, and ask Him in the name of Jesus to bless this<BR>event, please<BR>feel free to do so. As far as I know, that's not against the law----yet.<P>AND...one by one, the people in the stands bowed their heads, held hands<BR>with one another, and began to pray. They prayed in the stands. They<BR>prayed in the team huddles. They prayed at the concession stand. And<BR>they<BR>prayed in the announcer's box. The only place they didn't pray was in<BR>the<BR>Supreme Court of the United State's of America - the seat of "justice" in<BR>the one nation under God.<P>Somehow, Kingston, Tennessee, remembered what so many have forgotten...<BR>we are given the Freedom OF Religion, not the Freedom FROM Religion.<P>Praise God that His remnant remains!<P>

Butterfly...<P>Not to be lost...<BR>...it is now in the <A HREF="http://pages.ivillage.com/re/mb_nsr/MB_NPT.html" TARGET=_blank>Notable Posts/Threads</A>...<P>...for those... who in time... learn that MB...<BR>...is not just for building a marital relationship...<BR>...but one with God and man.<P>...it has been the case with me. <P> <P>Jim