Texas attorney general joins high school prayer graduation fight
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has announced that, despite the fact that a federal judge has banned prayers at graduation, he will join the fight allow the prayers to happen. While the federal judge barred prayers, students may talk about their faith.
Abbott said he believes the court order is unconstitutional and says there’s court precedent to allow the students to lead the attendees in prayer.
“The last thing these students should have done is to have ripped out from under them their ability to participate in a ceremony they’ve been expecting for the last four years,” he said. “Part of this goes to the very heart of the unraveling of moral values in the country today.”
This has nothing to do with morals and everything to do with what is legal in America according to the law and the Constitution. Just because people have been breaking the law and oppressing those who do not believe in their particular god for so long does not make it right.
Don Flanary, attorney for the agnostic Schultz family who filed the suit against the district, said Abbott is “misinformed and wrong.”
“No one’s trying to remove God from anywhere. What we’re trying to do is follow the law and the law says the state of Texas and the United States government can’t force religion on its citizens,” Flanary said.
By allowing one god, the Christian god, to be allowed in school, you not only ostracize those who don’t believe in any god but those who don’t believe in the Christian god. It is a public school. That means they must follow the law. You cannot endorse a religion, any religion on the student body.
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