Thirty Second Kneel Down

[The Simple Plan]

Has anyone on this forum been part of this movement. I stumbled across this whilst looking for youth work resources. In a country where school prayer has effectively been "outlawed" it is encouraging that God is using people to restore this mindset.

(Ed can I post the link?)

http://www.30kd.org/tellme.htm

 

[tamtam92]

I can't see it happen in France. Yet we have biblical groups in universities, but not in high schools, engineer colleges nor business schools (for the two last ones, in fact, it depends on the schools).

But you can't see how France is poor as a christian country !

Yet I'm happy there's people that struggle for uk I'm all with them ! I believe prayer is efficient !

 

[DaveKerwin]

looks cool !

 

[shout2thelord]

i heard about that on the 700 club a while ago. it sounds cool. are schools have assemblies but they are mostly full of dead religion.

 

[wildernesse]

There has already been a thread about this in the Fellowship forum. 30 second kneeldown is simply Christian propaganda that preys on the ignorance of the American public. Please educate yourself on these issues.

Previous Thread

Some of my previous responses:

Actually, children can already pray in schools without punishment. Teachers and other school officials may not lead the students in prayer, but students may pray when and how they wish--if they are not allowed, then that is a matter of discrimination. Most people think that praying in schools has been outlawed, but the truth is that individuals may pray when they choose. The silly little saying about as long as there are tests in school there will be prayer is pretty accurrate.

Anyway, if one person caused a whole generation to lose sight of God, their faith must have been extremely weak--and what accounts for the numbers of believers today? Hmmm. Also, the 9th Court of Appeals did not win or lose anything--the defendants in court cases win or lose, not the court itself.

Please visit the US Department of Education's web site. The following links will show you US guidelines for: Student Prayer and Religious Expression, Official Neutrality, Religion in school Assignments, and Distributing Religious Literature.

And the much maligned 9th Court of Appeals ruled that religious clubs have equal access to school facilities. Too bad that it's the most over-turned court in the nation.

If you aren't being allowed to non-disruptively pray in your public school, or have questions about your club being active on school grounds, you might want to contact the ACLU. Here is some information from their site about religion expression in schools.

Please educate yourselves about your religious rights so that you may express yourself fully within the law--if you are ignorant of your rights, it allows them to be taken away much easier.

--tibac