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LINK School challenges ruling on pre-game prayer

TALLAHASSEE - A Tampa Christian school has asked a federal appeals court to find that the Florida High School Athletic Association unconstitutionally prevented a prayer over a stadium loudspeaker before a 2015 high-school football championship game.

In a 74-page brief filed Monday at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, attorneys for Cambridge Christian School cited legal precedents, including a June decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of a Bremerton, Wash., high-school football coach who lost his job after praying on the field after games.

Cambridge Christian wants the Atlanta-based appeals court to overturn an April ruling by U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell, who said the Florida High School Athletic Association is a "state actor" and did not violate First Amendment rights when it refused to allow a prayer over the public-address system before a game between Cambridge Christian School and Jacksonville's University Christian School. ...

snytiger6 9 Aug 10
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'Bout had it with this prayer/prey shit.

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Easy to see this train wreck coming...

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These Obstructionist regressive republican fascists feel that they are above all laws and the US Constitution that gives them the right to free speech and the right to assemble!!!

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Give 'em an inch and they'll take a mile. 😡

More like 10 miles. These religious idiots are bound and determined to push their religious myths onto everything they can!

@Redheadedgammy No shit. I have never seen it this bad.

@Flyingsaucesir The religious right thinks they are on a roll after the SC took Roe out. Watch for them to keep pushing their bullshit everywhere they can. 😉

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