The following comes from a Sept. 24 email sent by the Pacific Justice Institute.
Attorneys with the Pacific Justice Institute sent a warning letter late yesterday to officials with the Bakersfield City School District, urging them to retract a bulletin which seeks to restrict religious speech by teachers even when they are not working.
The advisory bulletin, dated September 19 and addressed to principals in the district, claims that teachers cannot participate in tomorrow’s annual See You At The Pole events. For the past several years, students across America have gathered around their schools’ flagpoles before school begins on the fourth Wednesday in September to pray for their fellow students, their campuses and the nation.
Locally, the pole events tend to be loosely organized and open to the general public. Pacific Justice’s letter to the school district reminds the district that teachers do not lose their rights to act as citizens and exercise their First Amendment freedoms, when they are off the clock.
“Sometimes the government gets so hypersensitive about separation of church and state that it loses sight of the actual text of the First Amendment, including freedom of speech and free exercise of religion,” stated Brad Dacus, the president of Pacific Justice. “We need to restore that balance, and our letter aims to do just that.”
The letter, penned by Pacific Justice staff attorney Matthew McReynolds, notes that the institute is willing to represent any teachers faced with adverse employment action for participating in See You At The Pole, while also being willing to represent the school district and other school districts that choose to honor teachers’ First Amendment rights, against any challenges from extreme church-state separation groups.
“Teachers are natural community leaders and civic participants,” noted McReynolds. “If anything, we should be encouraging and not censoring active, engaged citizens who simply want the best for their communities and schools.”
The state obviously attempts – through the public schools – to control nearly every aspect of family life. When will we, the voters, the taxpayers who fund this bunch of godless buffoons rise up and slap them right out of office? Take back your state ! What’s WRONG with you ? Take it back or move to America. Things like this, where teachers are afraid to pray with students on their own time should be alarming to everyone.
Why?
Ted,
What do you mean by “Take it back or move to America”.
May God have mercy on an amoral America!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Kenneth,
A native Californian, I am now living in the mid-west. I escaped.
I mean take control of YOUR schools. If the people won’t insist on privatizing schools, they should at least do whatever it takes to stop
their ruination. You have a chance to vote school board members in and out of office. How many pay any attention to that ? How many go to board meetings and insist on being heard ?
Here in Indiana people are actively engaged in the oversight of the schools. Athletics such as football and basketball are on the radio, and yes – get ratings. The parents care but they DO something about it.
That’s what I mean – take control, insist on common sense, or find a way to leave and relocate to a place where the radicals are not in control. It’s simple. You just do what’s best for your family and worry about how scary it might be after you’ve done the right thing.
Ted,
If I were not a bachelor, for the sake of my family, I would do just that and move out of Taxifornia! However I chose to stay and fight.
May God have mercy on an amoral America!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher, Founding Director
Concerned Americans of America, Inc.
I wish I would off moved when my kids were a lot smaller….now it’s too late, it’s harder to move them when they are older and needing family. Oh well not need to dwell in the past…as a parent, I try to do my best to protect my kids…may God have mercy on us all.
There is no separation of church from state in the US Constitution. It is an establishment clause that protects the people from a state “church” like the Church of England. The Founding Fathers knew the tyranny of a state sponsored church and didn’t want that for the US. Pax
Have you actually read what jefferson wrote about the separation of Church and state?
Your False Catholic,
For your information, what Jefferson said in a private letter to a private Institution, Danbury Baptist Church, has absolutely NO bearing on the Constitution.
Did you study Social Studies at all or were you asleep when they covered the U.S. Constitution?
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher, Founding Director
Concerned Americans of America, Inc
Praise God that we are using our guns now by using good attorneys to make them respect people’s freedom!