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ABOUT PRAYER AT FOOTBALL GAMES
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AFA Action Alert
American Family Association
Dr. Donald E. Wildmon, President
Tim Wildmon, Vice President
Buddy Smith, Editor
P.O. Drawer 2440
Tupelo, MS 38803
Phone (662) 844-5036
Fax (662) 842-7798
URL: http://www.afa.net
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August 23, 2000
ABOUT PRAYER AT FOOTBALL GAMES
[Online Format: http://www.afa.net/alert/aa000823.htm ]
The American Family Association is urging students and spectators to join in reciting the Lord's Prayer at football games during the upcoming season. The association says that this is one way students can exercise their freedom of religion. AFA is encouraging those who desire to participate to simply recite the Lord's Prayer immediately after the national anthem is played.
"Of course we know the ACLU will go beserk," said Donald E. Wildmon, president of AFA. "But on the other hand, there is no way the Supreme Court can stop this because it is simply individuals participating on their own without any leader."
In addition to this AFA Action Alert that has grown to over 12,000 participants, Wildmon says that the AFA will promote the effort on our American Family Radio Network ( www.afr.net ) which has over 200 stations across the nation. "The constitution says that Congress shall not prohibit the free exercise of religion. This is a form of that free exercise, albeit a symbolic one," Wildmon said.
Those who do not desire to participate do not have to do so, he said. He said that he does not know what kind of response there will be to the suggestion, but he would not be surprised should it be widely accepted.
RESOURCES
Press Release - High Court KO's Student Prayer (AFA Center For Law & Policy) - http://www.afa.net/law/pr061900.shtml
Agape Press - "We Still Pray" Rally Blocks Highways Into North Carolina City" - http://www.afa.net/Activism/westillpray.shtml
Text of Supreme Court Ruling on Student Prayer At Football Games
Including Dissenting Opinion - http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-62.ZS.html
Religious Expression in Public Schools By Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley - http://www.ed.gov/MailingLists/EDInfo/msg00029.html
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