Pray that Missouri's 'right to pray' amendment is killed
Yael T. AbouhalkahAs they should be, the lawsuits are already flying over Missouri voters’ approval Tuesday of the ridiculous “right to pray” Amendment No. 2.
This amendment is so full of problems that it’s likely a court-ordered goner in a few years, if not a few months.
In fact, the court cases could keep it from ever taking effect.
That would be good.
Amendment 2 is a waste of time, a piece of ultra-conservative fluff aimed at appealing to Missouri voters who don’t know better.
The Missouri and U.S. constitutions already protect prayer in schools, which is what Amendment 2 was sold as doing.
In reality, though, it was stuffed with other inane topics, such as giving students the right not to participate in school activities that might offend their religious beliefs.
The sooner Amendment 2 is killed, the better.
George Hunsucker
Northland
10 months, 2 weeks agothat’s right YT… let’s find one judge to overrule a huge percentage of the voting public.
Why these stupid people that voted for this amendment just don’t know the way. We are sooooooooooooo lucky we have lefties such as yourself telling us what we don’t know, and of course, finding that one judge to institute your tryanny of the minority…
Mark Robertson
10 months, 2 weeks agoYael, As George also points out, thankfully we have “smart” people like you telling the 82.7 percent of us Mo. voters that we “don’t know better.” And, thankfully, we have “smart” lib judges who will overturn the will of the people who don’t know better, like they have so many times in this country. What are you really bothered by Yael? Are you afraid that government school students would now not be forced to take brainwashing and dangerous Planned Parenthood “sex education” courses or anti-creation courses? Libs are all about control. Thank you. Mark Robertson Independence
Patrick T. Condon
10 months, 2 weeks agoAnd so goes another entry into Yael’s daily journal. Thank you for sharing and allowing us to see the warning signs of early onset sooner rather than later. derp…
Mark Hastert
10 months, 2 weeks agoI suspect much of the public support will wither the first time a student drops his prayer rug and does noon Dhuhr prayers or when a Rastafarian lites up his joint or little Johnny can’t graduate high school because his religious beliefs are anti-science. Will the school be forced to him him a “special” diploma? Ya see, they really didn’t want to protect all religion, just one.
The whole thing opens a stupid can of worms many of which it’s supporters will be forced to eat along with the rational members of the voting public. Now the taxpayers will have to pay for defending this idiocy which, of course, will certainly lose.
Phil Cardarella
10 months, 2 weeks agoSo, if little Johnny turns in a geography report that shows a flat earth balanced on the back of a giant turtle — an alternative to Genesis and evilution both — does he get an “A” or does the school get sued? How about when he does a report showing a caveman riding an dinosaur — since his church thinks the Flintstones was a documentary? Is he eligble for a doctorate in Geology when he reports on Noah’s flood?
Ah, yes, we must protect “Christians” from persecution by the other 5% of the population, right?
Mark Hastert
10 months, 2 weeks ago“Pray”? To whom, Yael? To YOUR “god”?”
No, MY God! My God is better than your God and now you have to watch my children pray to my God in the classroom. The first time a Rastafarian stokes a joint for Jah I bet there will be a whole slew of converts. I’m not sure what to think about the guys that pray with rattlesnakes, that could get dicey.
As Bugs would say “what a bunch of maroons”.