You Can't Pray Before Dinner

There's a retirement home in Georgia, Port Wentworth's Ed Young Senior Citizens Center. Once again the intolerant anti-Christian secularist bigots and atheists use the Establishment Clause. It just says the government can't impose a religion, and the secularists change it to mean that you can't express religion in public.

The Senior center have some meals are discounted for the people there, and the difference between the retail cost and the discounted cost is picked up with Federal money. The knuckleheads at the Center, specifically Tim Rutherford, Senior Citizens Inc. vice president said some of his employees went to a luncheon, and horror of horrors, people were praying over their meal before eating, and this is a violation of the separation of church and state. This is just as stupid as a case a few years ago, a little girl riding the school bus home was reading the Bible, and was told she couldn't because it was a violation of the separation of church and state. The only thing I see separated here is knowledge and intelligence from people in positions of authority.

Apparently the prayer was public, and the backpedaling knuckleheads say the seasoned citizens can have a moment of silence, and pray to themselves, that they weren't saying there could be no prayer. What a bunch of lying nonsense. I recently saw an atheist poster, the famous painting of Jesus in the garden praying, saying "The best way to feel like you're making a difference in the world without actually having to do jack s**t." So, knuckleheads, if prayer is so meaningless, what's the beef?

To his credit, Mayor Glenn "Pig" Jones said this is pretty much just stupid, and is trying to get things straightened out. Jones: "It was one of the hardest things I ever did as mayor is to look those people in the eyes and ask them to be patient with me and honor their God in a moment of silence until I can have a resolution to this." "For me to look at their eyes and tell them they can't thank God for their food, it's unheard of - I can't take it."

Not okay to pray, but is okay to use the Federal Government to force intolerance and bigotry on the citizens, and repress freedom of religion in violation of the Constitution. It's what happens when Statists say the Constitution is a 'living document', meaning that anyone can say it means whatever they or the zeitgeist of the day says it means.