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rug

(82,333 posts) Sun May 31, 2015, 08:58 PM May 2015

Group asks UT Rockets to end pregame prayers

NICHOLAS PIOTROWICZ BLADE SPORTS WRITER
05/27/2015, 12:00am EDT

A nontheist advocacy group is using a University of Toledo YouTube video as the basis for its allegation that the UT football program and head coach Matt Campbell violated the U.S. Constitution by praying before its 2012 game against Bowling Green State University.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based nonprofit organization, sent a letter dated May 21 from its staff attorney to incoming UT president Sharon Gaber in which it asked the university to begin an immediate investigation into “this serious and flagrant violation of the First Amendment.”

Mr. Campbell, through UT spokesman Paul Helgren, declined comment.

UT spokesman Jon Strunk issued a statement to The Blade that said: “UT is in receipt of a letter from the Freedom From Religion Foundation regarding UT’s football program and is reviewing its contents.”

http://www.bcsn.tv/news_article/show/519125

FFRF must have a backlog.

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Group asks UT Rockets to end pregame prayers (Original Post) rug May 2015 OP

This and the recent Pew poll Cartoonist May 2015 #1

Pregames prayers are proselitizing and should be banned Yorktown May 2015 #2

Good idea because if Einsteins' presonal religious views are science Leontius May 2015 #3

The day YEC will be a science, opinions of YEC'sts will mean something. Yorktown Jun 2015 #4

Anyway, my point was about equal treatment Yorktown Jun 2015 #5

Cartoonist

(7,326 posts)

1. This and the recent Pew poll

Reply to rug (Original post)

Sun May 31, 2015, 10:02 PM

May 2015

Give me hope that religion is on the way out. It won't happen overnight, but the trend is there. Religion may always exist, but it's hold on society and it's influence will become as important as astrology.

Yorktown

(2,884 posts)

2. Pregames prayers are proselitizing and should be banned

Reply to rug (Original post)

Sun May 31, 2015, 10:45 PM

May 2015

Pregames prayers are telling young kids watching the game: "Look, role model adults pray"

Why not teach them in Science class that Einstein said a personable god is childish?

Leontius

(2,270 posts)

3. Good idea because if Einsteins' presonal religious views are science

Reply to Yorktown (Reply #2)

Sun May 31, 2015, 11:23 PM

May 2015

so are the religious views of YEC believers so let's teach that too. Right?

Yorktown

(2,884 posts)

4. The day YEC will be a science, opinions of YEC'sts will mean something.

Reply to Leontius (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 1, 2015, 12:40 AM

Jun 2015

Yorktown

(2,884 posts)

5. Anyway, my point was about equal treatment

Reply to Leontius (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 1, 2015, 12:51 AM

Jun 2015

- pregame prayers are telling kids role models (football players) believe in god

- so telling kids another role model (Einstein) didn't believe in god would be reciprocity.

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