FL School Board, Fearing Satanists, Nixes Christian Invocations at Meetings

[NeoGreen]

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/11/20/fl-school-board-fearing-satanists-nixes-christian-invocations-at-meetings/

FL School Board, Fearing Satanists, Nixes Christian Invocations at Meetings
By Hemant Mehta, November 20, 2019

Back in August, during a meeting of the Flagler County School Board in Florida, an unannounced and unexpected speaker began delivering a prayer in front of the crowd. Pastor Jeanine Clontz told everyone to bow their heads in prayer as they began the school year.

The school board’s chair, Janet McDonald, soon said she was responsible for inviting Clontz, and she did it in the hope that it would begin a “new tradition.”

Her new tradition would be illegal, of course. School board meetings are not church services, and courts have repeatedly said there’s a difference between those and city council meetings where invocations are now permitted. More to the point, what McDonald wanted was to make the meeting uncomfortable for atheists, Muslims, Jews, and everyone else who’s not part of the Christian majority. What the hell was she thinking?

The board’s attorney got them to add further discussion of the matter to a future meeting. She clearly need some time to explain how, if Christian prayers were allowed, then Satanic ones would have to be allowed as well.

There have, in fact, been multiple meetings where the prayers were discussed since August. But yesterday, the board decided to officially end the practice before it could ever formally begin. It’s the right move.

But we should fund religious schools?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1218320377
Even Satanist ones?

[Girard442]

1. I gave money to the Satanic Temple for exactly this reason.

Those guys want religion in government, we’ll bring it!

[MineralMan]

2. Silly, misguided, stupid people. They want the 1st Amendment freedoms to apply only to

their favored religion. Freedom of worship, as long as you worship as we direct. It is actually impossible to explain why that is ridiculous to stupid people. Smart people understand immediately.

So, elect smart people to your local school boards and get rid of the problem once and for all.

[Major Nikon]

3. They don't want freedom

When a zealot talks about freedom in the context of religion, you can substitute the word “privilege” for a more accurate representation, which btw is the exact opposite of freedom.