A high school football coach in Pennsylvania is now no longer leading prayers with his team following the receipt of a complaint from a prominent professing atheist organization. According to reports, Dunmore High School Head Coach Jack Henzes has led his team in prayer before each game for years. “We pray to the good Lord hoping none of our players,
or the other players, are hurt because we know how hard they work,” Henzes told local television station WBRE. But in June, the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) sent a letter to the Dunmore School District to assert that Henzes’ longstanding practice was unconstitutional. The organization said that it had been contacted by a local resident about the matter. READ MORE
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Don’t give into them!!!!! It’s freedom of speech and our freedom of religion.. pray in the locker room then! Just don’t give into those goons!!
Coward.
SIR, A COACH HELPS TO MOLD A YOUNG PERSONS LIFE IN SO MANY WAYS. AND FOR THESE YOUNG PEOPLE IT MAY BE THE ONLY TIME THEY HEAR THE WORD OF GOD. AS FOR THE ATHEIST ORGANIZATION, THEY TOO WILL KNEEL,MAYBE NOT TODAY OR EVEN TOMORROW,BUT ONE DAY AND THOSE ARE NOT MY WORDS. EVEN THE DEVIL HIMSELF SHAKES WHEN HE HEARS THE WORD OF GOD.
Who denies me before man I will deny before the father