Damon Fowler Graduation unconstitutional PRAYER in SPITE

Offensive Open prayer held at Damons Public HIgh School Graduation against his wishes for them to honor and uphold the United States Constitution!!!!! Disrespectful...Damon requested the school uphold the first amendment right.. instead they mock him with spiteful prayer. SICK... these christians need to READ MATHEW 6 in the BIBLE apparently! Follow the story at SUPPORT DAMON @ FACEBOOK

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• unconstitutional
• prayer
• public
• high
• bastrop
• graduation
• louisiana
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[DocWattson]

I am as much an Atheist as anyone and am for a separation of church and state but if people want to pray they have the right too. Forcing students to pray isn't right and shouldn't be allowed but if one student during a speech wants to lead a voluntary prayer then that is their right. You can't force people not to pray just as you can't force them to pray.

[jaxhotmom]

@DocWattson a moment of silence would have been the right things to do... and shutting your mouth during the moment of silence would have been even more awesome. it shows lack of respect and also a lack of the knowledge of their own teachings to pray silently and not in public forcing your religion on others.

[teygrxx]

Fucking hickville louisiana. I am embarrassed for my state I live in.

[teygrxx]

Fucking hickville louisiana. I am embarrassed for my state I live in.

[jaxhotmom]

@MrStonemike Then you must not like your American freedom, maybe you should move... or better yet.. maybe some Second Amendment-Loving-American should shoot you in the face. JS

[Pbirv]

@mollyjeorgensen And if they complain about what's going on, they're sent to a psychiatrist and put on medication. I'm 48 and it scares the shit out of me that I'm likely to be around when this country becomes a Christian version of Iran or Saudi Arabia, a theocratic corporate totalitarian police state. It doesn't help that these kids don't question the media either, which anyone with the ability to think knows is full of shit.

[Pbirv]

@Joyness333 90% are practicing Christians? Since when did Jesus tell his followers to bully, threaten, and disown anyone who thought different? Or tell them to pray loudly in public? The school and the valedictorian not only broke the law, she violated the very Bible she claims to follow.

[bmf1706]

Just so we're all clear. The actual Constitution bans CONGRESS from establishing a state religion, prohibiting free excercise of religion and requiring a religious test for public servitude. This was extended to the states by the 14th. But nothing says a public school, controlled by local governments, can not pray, or that public expressions of religion are banned. The words "Separation" and "Church" aren't even in the US Constitution. You will find it in the USSR's constitution.

[Water4Jeremiah]

I laughed at the part where they were talking to their imaginary friend.

[Intse]

Just caught up to the story and holy crap at the hypocrisy of those people.

[Pitchguest]

@nationanthemes515

Illegal, unconstitutional. Whatever. The 1st Amendment? Yeah, er, you mean the one that states, and I quote, ""...I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State."? That one? The one she clearly violates by having a public prayer in a state school?

[Pitchguest]

@Joyness333

Bullshit. Bull. Shit. A student wanted to include a prayer in her graduation speech? And it just so happens the audience were included in this graduation speech, too? The seperation of church and state ensures that state and religion does not intermix - public schools are paid for by the state, hence should not include public prayer. Who gives a shit if they're 90% Christian? It's a fucking public school. This was a prayer. It's unconstitutional.

[Tathon181]

The policies of the school district that Bastrop High is in very explicitly states that this is illegal. I hate how Xtians feel like that laws don't apply to them when they are defending that "Jebus is truth" and "atheists and Muslims are evil."

[Pitchguest]

Just gonna go ahead and copy what I said in another video:

I wish someone would have had the state of mind, if not Damon Fowler, at the time of graduation to recite THE ENTIRE PRAYER at that graduation. Hypocrisy and priests and synagogues all. That would have been epic. That they went ahead and still had that prayer, though, at the graduation, is appalling. That they not only ostracized him from the community, but went ahead with the prayer and did it IN HIS FACE to boot? That is cruel.