The first essay:
https://thehayride.com/2022/04/garlington-riverbend-elementary-could-lead-the-way-to-restoration/
Which
garnered this reply:
https://thehayride.com/2022/04/sadow-little-room-for-louisiana-schools-to-encourage-religion/
And the answer
to the reply:
Here is a
portion from the first essay:
As circumstances of society change, laws
and constitutions must sometimes change to fit them: This is a basic axiom of political life in
the States, and the recent controversy at Riverbend Elementary School in West Monroe
illustrates a glaring need to put that axiom into practice.
For, even though Easter is upon us, the
holiest day of the year, when we celebrate Christ’s glorious Resurrection, His
conquering of death and the devil, His gift of a new mode of being to mankind, KNOE
reported on 15 April that the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) has
issued a demand to Riverbend to disallow daily prayer at the school because of
the complaint of a parent over the ritual.
The basis of this complaint is no doubt the
clause in the Louisiana and federal constitutions that no laws shall be made to
compel people to adhere to one particular creed or another (‘no establishment
of religion’). There was a time when
that was the main religious concern of the peoples of the States – that one of
the Christian communions, with support from the government at some level –
local, State, federal, would persecute the other communions using political power.
That is no longer the case. The main threat to Christianity now comes
from the weaponization of clauses like those just mentioned by militant
anti-Christian groups like FFRF, ACLU, et al. to expunge all public expressions
of Christianity from society.
Louisianans have never been shy about
amending their constitutions. Now is not
the time to abandon that habit. For the
sake of protecting the Christian faith in our State, Article 1, Section 8,
which reads, ‘No law shall be enacted respecting an establishment of religion
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof’, needs to have added to it a few more
words: ‘In order to uphold the Christian
faith which is the preeminent source of Louisiana’s culture, it may be given
special preference over all other religions by any public entity in this
State.’
Through such a change, a public school like
Riverbend could voluntarily adopt Christian prayers and incorporate the
teaching of Christianity into its curricula without fear of being sued; others
could just as freely choose not to.
Thus, no one would be forced to join a
Christian communion, but it would be a salutary step towards protecting
Christianity from its enemies.
The culture of the South grows largely out
of the soil of Christianity. If we value
the fruits of it – kindness, hospitality, love of family, love of nature,
respect for authority and the laws, good manners, beautiful
architecture, etc. – we will take steps like those proposed above to
strengthen it.
But while the process of amending gets
underway, local action needs to begin immediately. . . .
***
A shorter
version of the first essay is here:
--
Holy Ælfred
the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to
the Union!
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