Mississippi public school cancels prayer service due to FFRF letter
The Oak Park Elementary School in Ocean Springs, Miss., was all set to host a back-to-school prayer service yesterday. The Ocean Springs School District was partnering with local churches to put on the event. Superintendent Bonita Coleman planned to participate. A similar event was held last year.
FFRF stressed to the school district that this was a blatant violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
- See more at: http://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/...O2bC0.dpuf
The Oak Park Elementary School in Ocean Springs, Miss., was all set to host a back-to-school prayer service yesterday. The Ocean Springs School District was partnering with local churches to put on the event. Superintendent Bonita Coleman planned to participate. A similar event was held last year.
FFRF stressed to the school district that this was a blatant violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
- See more at: http://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/...O2bC0.dpuf
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
