ACLU Attacks Christian Prayer at Football Game
by Josh Montez
http://family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0041895.cfm
 
The ACLU is crying religious discrimination for three Muslim student-athletes at New Mexico State University because coach allowed Christian prayer before games.
Peter Simonson with the ACLU says the Muslims felt excluded during the prayers and contends the football coach of a state university shouldn’t be endorsing a particular religion.

“We want people to have the freedom to practice and pray in their own context, but not to see that any particular religious belief is formally endorsed by the university and the coaches.”

Mike Johnson with the Alliance Defense Fund says examples of ACLU attacks on Christian prayer are numerous.

“We’re defending a case currently at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, down in New Orleans, where the ACLU filed a challenge to a school board’s right to open their meetings with an invocation.”

Harder to find are ACLU suits against public prayers by non-Christians. For example, in Virginia, the ACLU is suing for the right of a Wiccan Priestess to open a Board of Supervisors meeting. Johnson calls it an incredible double standard.

“The ACLU is on a search and destroy mission. What we’re seeing in this country is not a tolerance for people all faiths, what we’re seeing more and more is an outright hostility towards people of one particular faith – and that’s typically the Christian faith.”

And it’s not just Christian prayers that are targeted. There are numerous ACLU suits to remove public nativity scenes while displays for kwanzaa and those depicting a menorah are overlooked.