A district in Pennsylvania has prohibited an elementary school principal from saying ‘God Bless America’ after the Pledge of Allegiance, following a single parental complaint on the practice.
Peter Brigg, the principal at Sabold Elementary School, had made a practice of saying the phrase as part of his morning routine for several years.
A parent at the school somehow took offense to Brigg’s patriotic statement, filing a complaint with the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
“When a public school regularly proclaims, ‘God bless America,’ it sends a message to its students that the school is endorsing and compelling belief in God,” the group wrote in a letter.
They argued it violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the Constitution
School Caves
The district caved almost immediately.
“Sabold Elementary School has ceased its practice of announcing the slogan, ‘God bless America’ over the loudspeaker immediately following the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance,” a district attorney wrote in response. “None of the schools in the School District currently engages in this practice.”
Yet again, the left has ruined another tradition!
Maybe if the left spent as much time trying to improve the actual education of our students, we wouldn’t be falling behind from the rest of the world! #FixIt https://t.co/X3XNCt56in
— Andrew Pollack (@AndrewPollackFL) May 5, 2019
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Way to teach your kids how free speech can be trampled on by the hurt feelings of one person. That, and how to cave in on your own principles (pun intended).
Atheists Rejoice!
“We’re gratified,” the godless group boasted. “Young elementary school children don’t need to be coerced into affirming God’s name every morning.”
Actually thinking a common phrase is a way to coerce children into religion is a prime example of how the education system has failed people, particularly members of this group.
Will the principal also be banned from saying ‘God bless you’ to sneezing students with the concern that he might be coercing them into affirming God?
Perhaps we shouldn’t give them any ideas. This is, after all, the same group who targeted a high school football coach in Georgia for praying with his team.
Students and fans alike – by the hundreds – responded to that effort by praying for the coach. Let’s hope the students at Sabold Elementary respond in a similar fashion.
The district writes that they “[have] not prohibited students from deciding on their own, as their own form of self-expression, whether or not to state the words, ‘God Bless America.'”
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Wake up America, before it’s too late! God Bless America!
Wake up America, before it’s too late! God Bless America!
One FRIGGING parent objected,and every body sticks their head in the sand! SMFH! Dad’s grow some balls, moms, grow some ovaries!. Fight back!. YOU are the MAJORITY!
You have GOD on your side. If you don’t acknowledge GOD, why should HE acknowledge you?
One person. ONE person and you fold like a cheap card table. Shame on you!. When did this school district lose it’s spine? Here’s what you’re teach these students: if you whine loud enough, you’ll get your way. This is why more and more students are being home-schooled.
One person. ONE person and you fold like a cheap card table. Shame on you!. When did this school district lose it’s spine? Here’s what you’re teach these students: if you whine loud enough, you’ll get your way. This is why more and more students are being home-schooled.
Play Kate Smith’s version of God Bless America over the school’s P. A. system. This is just a history lesson that many have forgotten.
Play Kate Smith’s version over the P. A. system. Time to learn some history!
Play Kate Smith’s version over the P. A. system. Time to learn some history!
That is a stifling freedom of speech. And saying God bless America does not violate freedom of religion. It does not establish (or even sponsor) a State religion. That person who made the complaint is being offensive!
I bet there would be no problem with may “Allah bless you” bunch of sick motherf–ker’s.
I bet there would be no problem with may “Allah bless you” bunch of sick motherf–ker’s.
Just say “Bless America” and most children will know what you mean without actually saying GOD. These same schools are probably teaching islam to children.
Well, if the students have the right “on their own,” to say “God bless America,” why doesn’t the principal have the same right??? These people and the PC bullies are trying to ruin this country, and they make me sick! Since when, has the minority been allowed to make decisions for the majority — since when? Dear God, this has got to stop — please intervene and tell us how we can stop it. :(
Well, if the students have the right “on their own,” to say “God bless America,” why doesn’t the principal have the same right??? These people and the PC bullies are trying to ruin this country, and they make me sick! Since when, has the minority been allowed to make decisions for the majority — since when? Dear God, this has got to stop — please intervene and tell us how we can stop it. :(
The constitution says “Freedom of Religion,” not freedom from religion. Some people need to read our Constitution. Not make up what they want it to say!
Probably a Muslim.
Probably a Muslim.
Was the complaining parent/party a legal citizen? Sounds like they should take a vote on using the phrase in this school…………bet the parent would lose.
Tell this Atheist to shut their mouth and put their complaint where the sun don’t shine on them. They are interfering with the principal’s right to Free Speech. If they are offended by Free Speech, use Ear Plugs so you don’t hear them
Tell this Atheist to shut their mouth and put their complaint where the sun don’t shine on them. They are interfering with the principal’s right to Free Speech. If they are offended by Free Speech, use Ear Plugs so you don’t hear them
But some schools let transgender come and read LBGTQ books and say it’s ok to have oral and butt sex with same sex.
The left is trying to erase Christianity and replacing it with Islam. What could possibly cause Americans to do that? IMHO. As the left has sped swiftly to the socialist agenda the bain of Socialism raises it’s ugly head. Control has always been it’s mantra. They have naturally been drawn to Islam because it personifies control. Idolized control at the top with mostly blind followers. Some so indoctrinated that they willingly become human bombs. A socialists dream come true. We must put a stop to this behavior. God has giving us the power to do so. The cleansing must start from within ourselves.
The left is trying to erase Christianity and replacing it with Islam. What could possibly cause Americans to do that? IMHO. As the left has sped swiftly to the socialist agenda the bain of Socialism raises it’s ugly head. Control has always been it’s mantra. They have naturally been drawn to Islam because it personifies control. Idolized control at the top with mostly blind followers. Some so indoctrinated that they willingly become human bombs. A socialists dream come true. We must put a stop to this behavior. God has giving us the power to do so. The cleansing must start from within ourselves.
a religious school can pretty much do what they want.
Pennsylvania has become a SHITHOLE … there are Muslim children affirming they will decapitate the infidels in a school in that state … did I say it has become a SHITHOLE?
Pennsylvania has become a SHITHOLE … there are Muslim children affirming they will decapitate the infidels in a school in that state … did I say it has become a SHITHOLE?
How about start pulling these kids out of school. The school can’t get funding if there are no children. And the gov’t can’t arrest all the parents.
You are the trash America does not need…save that oxygen for a real American…
You are the trash America does not need…save that oxygen for a real American…
so you express intolerance and hate toward “the left’ as all good sheeple currently do? hypocritical much?
Amen!
Amen!
This is what the Left means by tolerance. I grew up in a culture that tolerated other religious beliefs. The Left tolerates nothing, it expresses hatred and contempt for everything. It holds out the promise of some future “utopia” if only its agenda is adopted. The results are always the same, godless gulags, death camps, exterminations, executions, secret police, poverty, misery.
Show me a progressive/Leftist/liberal/Marxist/Antifa and I show you a minion of the dark side.
GOD BLESS AMERICA and screw the Godless people!
GOD BLESS AMERICA and screw the Godless people!
what ever happened to the majority rules?
What a STUPID school to listen to one perverted liberal anti God believer!!!
What a STUPID school to listen to one perverted liberal anti God believer!!!
“Something wrong with the Liberal mindset” is an oxymoron. You can’t have one without the other!
Unbelievable!! They are teaching how Allah is great but can’t say God bless America??? Something is really wrong with the liberal mindset.
Unbelievable!! They are teaching how Allah is great but can’t say God bless America??? Something is really wrong with the liberal mindset.
Grow a pair and tell that one person to shove it.