Homeschool Helpers

Newsletter
Issue 185, June 3, 2011
From Homeschool Helpers
In association with Pass It On Ministries

By Dan L. White

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A Texas judge has ordered a Texas high school not to have prayer at their
graduation ceremony.

That's not unusual, is it? Judges have been making rulings like that for
decades now. What is unusual is the extreme extent of this ruling.

A couple filed a lawsuit to prevent the school from having a prayer in its
graduation.

Why did they do that?

They did it just to force their anti-Christ religious beliefs on everyone else.

Some people love the God of the Bible. Some people hate the God of the
Bible. Both are religious beliefs.

There is this absurd idea about religion and science in America. If you believe
in the God of the Bible, that is considered a religious belief and the judges
have forbidden that it be taught or allowed in any way in the government
schools. If you do not believe in the God of the Bible, that is not considered a
religious belief, but is said to be science. Therefore that belief can be taught
and allowed in the government schools.

Almost everybody in America has accepted that premise: believing in God is

religious; not believing in God is not religious.

The deepest religious position you can have is to believe in Yahweh the God
of the Bible and Y'shua Christ his son. The second deepest religious position
you can have is not to believe in God and Christ. Both are religious beliefs.
The public schools don't teach the former and do teach the latter. The
religion they teach is anti-Christ – against Christ.
And in Texas a couple sued to prevent people from shoving God down their
throats, so now they have succeeded in shoving their anti-God beliefs and
practices down everyone else's throat.

Once an anti-Christ position is taken, logically it has to be carried to a

complete extreme. If God must be removed a little bit, then eventually God
must be removed totally, not just from the schools, but from the workplaces,
the general society, and from each individual home. That is where all this is
leading.

The Texas judge said that the suing family would "suffer irreparable harm" if
a prayer is offered at graduation. Irreparable harm. Not only that, but the
judge said that such harm would occur if anyone prayed in the ceremony.
Therefore the judge's order includes the prohibition of certain specific words.

A Fox News article says that the judge forbid anyone in the school graduation
to use these words: “join in prayer,” “bow their heads,” “amen,” and
“prayer.” He also ordered the school district to remove the terms
“invocation” and “benediction” from the graduation program. “These terms
shall be replaced with ‘opening remarks’ and ‘closing remarks,'” the judge’s
order stated. His ruling also prohibits anyone from saying, “in [a deity’s
name] we pray.”

Can you see such a graduation ceremony in your mind? Certain people there
are going to be scrutinizing every word that every speaker says, watching for
speech crimes. Some will even be spying on private conversations between
people, to bring a possible complaint because individuals are expressing a
belief in God. If a parent has a child walk across the stage and bows a head
in silent prayer for that child, will such action result in that parent being
imprisoned? If a child accepts the diploma and the parent says "Amen" after
that, which is Hebrew for "so be it," is that a criminal offense?

If not now, it will be.

The Texas attorney general said that such a ruling turns the school officials
into "speech police." He said that such a ruling is "an ongoing attempt to
purge God from the public setting while at the same time demanding from
the courts an increased yielding to all things atheist and agnostic."

James Madison, a home schooled student, is considered the Father of the

Constitution, in that he had more effect on its writing than any other
individual. He said this in 1788, a year after the Constitution was written. "As
the courts are generally the last in making the decision [on laws], it results
to them, by refusing or not refusing to execute a law, to stamp it with its
final character. This makes the judiciary dept paramount in fact to the
Legislature, which was never intended, and can never be proper." And that is
how a small number of Godless, minutiae minded lawyers have changed the
course of America.

The ultimate problem here is the centralized authority that the government
public school system has in our nation. Because of human nature, any
centralized government, whether political or religious, will always lead to
evil. Judges have been making rulings like this one in Texas for three-
quarters of a century. People complain about them and then go along with
them. If America is to survive as a free nation, that is, to have the freedom to
worship God individually, they must end this education tyranny, where nine
out of ten young people are controlled by the public schools, where they are
taught the religion of that couple in Texas.

The Texas judge said that his royal decree on speech rules will be “enforced
by incarceration or other sanctions for contempt of Court if not obeyed by
District official (sic) and their agents.” He has that power only as long as
people go to his schools. Each parent who sends his children to the
government schools gives the liberals that power. The liberals are using their
power in the schools to indoctrinate young America with their religion and so
build the basis for removing God totally from the country.