Atheists are on the warpath in Monrovia, California.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is furious after someone spotted high school football coaches praying with football players – just before games.
One parent said their child was made to feel uncomfortable by the prayers. Sounds to me like the kid probably needed to repent for something.
“Public school coaches cannot constitutionally lead their teams in prayer or promote their personal religious beliefs to student-athletes,” FFRF attorney Sammi Lawrence wrote to the district.
The truth is that faith and football are like mom and apple pie – it’s part of our shared American experience.
But in recent years – God has not been welcomed onto the gridiron. Remember how the godless heathen sports mob set upon Tim Tebow for taking a knee – to pray.
Or Coach Joe Kennedy, the Washington state football coach who was fired because he prayed after a high school game? I wrote about the attacks on faith and football in my book, “Twilight’s Last Gleaming: Can America Be Saved?” Click here to read.
“Public school districts cannot require students to pray to play,” FFRF co-president Annie Laurie Gaylor said in a statement. “The Constitution gives students the right to be free from religious indoctrination while at school. The district must respect that by stopping these coaches from forcing their athletes to pray.”
The good news is that times are changing. The Supreme Court recently ruled that Coach Joe had a right to pray on the 50-yard-line or anywhere else in the stadium and Tim Tebow is even more popular than ever.
And somewhere in America on any given Sunday the congregation of a country church is singing that great gospel song, “Dropkick Me Jesus Through the Goalposts of Life.”
Although, in Monrovia the church-going folks may be adding a refrain about dropicking the atheists.