Prayer In Schools and On Facebook Under Attack

I belong to a group on Facebook called"Allow Prayer in Schools". I posted the video above to the group several days ago. Low and behold, I was attacked by an Atheist person today (yes, in a group called "Allow Prayer in Schools") who stated that the video was all lies and there were no quotations of case facts etc.

In my discussion with this person he basically stated that all these allegations of First Amendment religious rights violations are all lies by the religious right to appear persecuted. He sent me an atheist oriented article about a minister who tried to discover "ANY" cases of discrimination against students for attempting to pray on school grounds outside of class, and that he couldn't find a "SINGLE" one.

I responded that the minister should have researched the website of the Alliance Defense Fund at http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/ where he could find new cases of religious discrimination against students almost every week (granted they're not all prayer related but they all have a chilling effect on prayer in schools).

I sent him a link to a specific page of the ADF, and after viewing it he said it was all lies. Now mind you; the ADF is an organization of Christian lawyers and all the articles on their site include times, dates, specifics and in most cases copies of the actual lawsuit filed. In any case, I did a quick search of the ADF website for recent (in the past year) incidents of religious discrimination against students and found the following 36 violations/articles:

Denial of Right to wear religiously oriented T-Shirts When Other Messages Allowed:

http://www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/3221

Pro Life Group denied Access to School Premises When Other Groups Permitted:

http://adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/1778

University Discriminates Against Men’s Christian Fraternity:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5110

State Discriminates Against Students Seeking Scholarships to Religious Schools:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5109

School Officials Refuse To Allow Students To Hand Out Religious Invitations While Other Types Allowed:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5108

School Coach Not Allowed To Bow Head while students Pray:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4758

University Denies Activity Fees To Religious Organizations, Not Denied To Other Organizations:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4577

Public Library Denies Access To Christian Group While Allowing Access To All Others:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4548

ACLU Attempts To Block All Religious References In Schools:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4538

ACLU Attempts To Stop Religious Organizations Giving Shoes To Needy School Children:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/issues/religiousfreedom/default.aspx?cid=4345

University Denies Christian Speech On Campus:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/issues/religiousfreedom/default.aspx?cid=4345

ACLU & Atheist Move To Stop “Period of Silence” In Illinois Public Schools:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/issues/religiousfreedom/default.aspx?cid=4345

University Professor Denies And Ridicules Student Speech About Religious Faith:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5072

Public School Denies Recognition Of Christian Club:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5065

Public School Censors Posters stating “In God We Trust”:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5065

Texas A&M Refuses To Recognize Christian Club When Other Clubs Recognized:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5065

Public School Denies Religious Group Access To Campus When Others Granted Access:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5037

Boise State Denied Club Fees To Christian Club While Allowing Fees To Atheist Club:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5028

Atlanta Public Schools Refuse To Recognize Christian Student Group:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5020

Wright State University Refuses to Recognize Christian Student Group:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4988

UCLA Refuses To Allow Graduating Students To Thank Jesus:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4978

Florida Public Schools Refuse To Recognize Christian Student Group:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4969

California Public School Denies Student's Right To Recognize National Day of Prayer:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4969

Religious School Denied Right To Enforce Religious Standards:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4969

Yuba Public College In California Restricts Students Religious Speech on Campus:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4969

Church Refused Permission To Distribute Flyers On Public School Campus:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4969

Christian Club Forced To Pay Fee To Meet On School Grounds when All Others Not Charged:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4729

Shippensburg University Discriminates Against Christian Student Club Again:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4729

Christian Arrested For Expressing Faith On Public College Campus:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4675

Arizona Public Schools Prohibit Christian Student Club Fliers While Allowing Others:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4675

University of Maryland Censors Speech of Pro Life Students:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4675

Temple University Attempts To Halt Student’s Expression of Faith on Campus:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4675

Georgia Institute of Technology Attempts To Tell students What Religious Belief They Should Have:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4675

Men Threatened With Arrest For Expressing Religious Belief On University of Miami Campus:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4675

East Valley School District Forbids Christian Club From Using Meeting Room For Prayer When All Other Clubs Granted Access For Any Purpose:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4537

Christian Student Forbidden From Performing Christian Song In Public School Talent Contest:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4537