Group Demands Tennessee School End Prayers Before Football Games

The prayer police strike again!  This time the target is prayers before football games at Soddy-Daisy High School in Chattanooga, Tennessee.  The Freedom from Religion Foundation sent a letter to the school on behalf of some of the students of the school, that have an issue with the prayers being said over the schools loud speakers at football games.

"Students are a captive audience, they're required to go to school. When there is a violation like a prayer at a school, they're really vulnerable. It's a violation of their civil rights," she told the paper.

Hamilton County Board of Education member Rhonda Thurman responded to the letter, telling the paper if some people didn't want to hear the prayers, they can "put their fingers in their ears."

Jim Rogers, whose son is manager of East Hamilton School's football team, tells The Tennessean that public prayer falls under free speech rights.

"Our country was founded on the principle of religious suffrage and the freedom to express that religion," he told the paper.

A spokeswoman for the schools says Scales received the letter Monday, but was not yet ready to comment because the system's lawyer was out of town.

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