Characterized as ‘unnecessary, ineffective, embarrassing, exclusionary, divisive or just plain silly’
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(Official White House photo by Erin Scott)
(THE BLAZE) — A Texas school board planned a prayer marathon in the lead-up to the new school year. The prospect that educators, parents, and students would voluntarily appeal to an unspecified higher power for safety and wisdom ahead of the fall semester proved too much to bear for one activist group from out of state.
The Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation appears to have successfully pressured the Burnet Consolidated Independent School District into canceling the event and agreeing to refrain from proposing something again online in the future.
In the revisionist history on the FFRF’s website, the group alleges that “most social and moral progress has been brought about by persons free from religion,” making no mention of the atrocities secular regimes have been wont to commit ever since the French Revolution.
The group further boasts that the irreligious have been, in modern times, “the first to speak out” in support of euthanasia, abortion, contraception, and sterilization.