Professional Oklahoma Educators

Is it okay to pray in school? That’s the question many ask every year and now, thanks to a demonstration by 400 students at Pace High School in Florida, we may have an answer.

The student demonstration was the culmination of a six-month battle with the ACLU about prayer during school activities. When the students were told they were banned from praying or saying anything religious at the graduation ceremony, they rebelled in protection of their free speech rights by remaining standing during the ceremony to recite the Lord’s Prayer.

Mathew D. Staver, Founder of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law, commented: “Neither students nor teachers shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate. The students at Pace High School refused to remain silent and were not about to be bullied by the ACLU.” Since the event, the ACLU has yet to take any legal action, but believes the prayer should have been stopped.

Fox 10 Local News: http://www.fox10tv.com/dpp/mobile_news/prayer_ban_in_public_schools

Fox 10 Local News VIDEO: http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=349183

Liberty Counsel press release: http://www.lc.org/index.cfm?PID=14100&PRID=815