29 Oct 15

We will NOT be muzzled! Freedom of speech is still hangin on in America. Or is it? A football Coach removed and a 7th Grade Girl challenged her teacher who insisted that God is dead. Christians are under assault, time to wake up and be well prepared.

BREAKING: High school boots praying football coach

Coach Joe Kennedy has been booted from the locker room at Bremerton High School in Washington State, Fox News has learned exclusively.

Superintendent Aaron Leavell placed the longtime coach on administrative leave after he refused to stop his post-game prayers.

“Effective immediately, pending further District review of your conduct, you are placed on paid administrative leave from your position as an assistant coach with the Bremerton High School football program,” Level wrote to the coach in an Oct. 28th letter. “You may not participate, in any capacity, in BHS football program activities.”

Kennedy, who is a devout Christian, had been under investigation since September after someone complained about his post-game prayers at the 50-yard-line.

Kennedy, who is a devout Christian, had been under investigation since September after someone complained about his post-game prayers at the 50-yard-line. 

He was directed to cease and desist those prayers on Sept. 17th. He was also ordered to avoid kneeling, bowing his head or doing anything that could remotely be seen as religious.

“You violated those directives by engaging in overt, public and demonstrative religious conduct while still on duty as an assistant coach,” Leavell wrote. 

Leavell had offered to let the coach engage in “private prayer” following the football games — provided no child could see the coach petitioning the Almighty. 

The district’s accommodation for the coach’s “hush-hush, clandestine” prayers would be allowed  “so long as your brief, private religious exercise would not interfere with your performance of your continuing duties as an assistant coach.”

It’s unconscionable that a progressive school district would advocate shoving people back into a closet. 

Coach Kennedy is represented by Liberty Institute, the nation’s largest law firm dedicated to defending religious liberty. 

Attorney Hiram Sasser said the school district is being hostile towards Christianity.

“They are sending the message to all people of faith that they are not welcome,” Sasser told me.

Leavell noted in his letter to the coach that instead of meeting with him, he ignored their directives and prayed following the Oct. 23 football game.

However, Sasser said that’s not exactly accurate.

“We tried to meet with the school officials in-person but they refused to meet,” the attorney told me. “We were only able to have a brief hour and a half call with their lawyer, and the result was a letter banning private prayer just a few hours before last Friday’s game.”

Liberty Institute has already laid the groundwork for a lawsuit against the school district — accusing them of religious discrimination.

“It is unfortunate this school district is choosing litigation instead of a simple meeting,” Sasser said.

It is also unfortunate that the Bremerton School District and Superintendent Aaron Level have shown such animosity towards a good and honorable Christian man like Joe Kennedy. SOURCE

Brave girl stands up against Texas teacher who told students God is not real

A young Texas girl is being praised for her courage and unyielding faith after she stood up against her teacher who kept insisting that God doesn’t exist.

Jordan Wooley, a seventh grader at West Memorial Junior High in Katy, calmly testified at a school district hearing Tuesday after a bizarre reading assignment asked the class to say God wasn’t real and left several students in tears.

“Today I was given an assignment in school that questioned my faith and told me that God was not real,” she says at the podium, addressing eight members of the panel. “We were asked to take a poll to say whether God is fact, opinion or a myth.”

The assignment laid out several statements, including “There is a God,” and prompted students to weed out the facts from the opinions.

Youngsters who said the statement was a fact or opinion were flat out told they were “wrong,” Jordan said.

Jordan cited the Bible and stories about people coming back from Heaven. Her teacher slammed both, saying they were just “things that people were doing to get attention.”

Those who wouldn’t be swayed on their beliefs turned in their assignments, saying it was a fact that God exists.

Their answers were crossed out several times, Jordan said.

“I know that it wasn’t just me who was affected by it. My friend — she went home and she started crying,” Jordan said. “She was actually supposed to come with me (to testify) but she didn’t think she could.”

Several members of the Katy Independent School District called the girl courageous for giving her side of the story.

“Very brave of you,” one said. “Good job.”

Video of her testimony has been viewed nearly 200,000 times on Facebook, where it was captioned, “Bravery!”

The school district said the assignment was “ill-conceived” and “not intended” to challenge religious beliefs in an apology it issued Tuesday.

“The principal determined that the classroom activity included an item that was unnecessary for achieving the instructional standard,” district officials said.

“The teacher is distraught by this incident, as some commentary has gone as far as to vilify her without knowing her, her Christian faith, or the context of the classroom activity.”

The ungraded activity was meant to spark critical thinking and dialogue, but “its intent had been misconstrued,” the statement said.

It’s unclear if the teacher was disciplined.

The school district only said “appropriate personnel action will be taken.”

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