Cheerleaders forced to Cheer for Team rather than Jesus

[Admiral Yi]

Except it sounds like it's the cheerleaders on the field who were coming out with bible banners.  Knock yourself out in the stands, but the players, cheerleaders, and marching band members are representatives of the school.

After bursting threw the new secular banner the players knelt and prayed on the field.  It's OK as long as it's not a group activity apparently.

[DontSayBanana]

After bursting threw the new secular banner the players knelt and prayed on the field.  It's OK as long as it's not a group activity apparently.

Organized.  The players can pray as a team if the captain leads them, but if the coach leads, it's verbot.  With the cheerleaders, that would have had to be organized by or with the cheerleading coach; that's probably why they freaked out about the banner.

[Admiral Yi]

OK.

We need pics.

[Caliga]

If the cheerleaders are kneeling depending on the camera angle you might be able to see some boobage.

[Admiral Yi]

If the cheerleaders are kneeling depending on the camera angle you might be able to see some boobage.

Dude, high school cheerleaders don't show cleavage.  They show ass and crotch.

[Ed Anger]

If the cheerleaders are kneeling depending on the camera angle you might be able to see some boobage.

Dude, high school cheerleaders don't show cleavage.  They show ass and crotch.

Unless they are doing a car wash. Yeah. I love springtime.

[Berkut]

They aren't crazy because at the end of the day they are doing the right thing.

Pesonal religious expression in the stands? Knock yourself out.

Except it sounds like it's the cheerleaders on the field who were coming out with bible banners.  Knock yourself out in the stands, but the players, cheerleaders, and marching band members are representatives of the school.

Right - and the school put a stop to it. This is a story that shows that we are making progress, even in Caliga's home state.

[Admiral Yi]

Unless they are doing a car wash. Yeah. I love springtime.

Amen, amen, amen.  Osama bin Laden wants to take that away from us.

[merithyn]

Actually, my reading is that no-one in the community had threatened a lawsuit, or even complained about what they were doing.  The article mentioned that the school district was afraid that someone might bring a suit, but that doesn't imply that anyone had done so.  In other words, while you might cheer this as a victory for separation of church and state, it seems to be a product of exactly the same kind of mentality on the part of school boards that leads to zero-tolerance policies that cause a kid with a cold to get expelled for bringing an aspirin to school.  In short, school boards and school administrators may not be crazy, but a lot of them are spineless fools.

Then you didn't read it all the way through.

Players at the 900-student school began running through the Biblical banners shortly after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, and school Principal Jerry Ransom said he enthusiastically supported it then. But Catoosa County schools Superintendent Denia Reese banned the practice after a parent complained.

[Neil]

Would somebody seriously sue just because of religious stuff at a football game? 

Berkut certainly would.  His sourness knows no bounds.

[CountDeMoney]

without any Bible verses written on the cheerleaders' banner.
...
Instead, the football team ran through a banner that read "This is Big Red Country"

Anybody else see the humor in this?

[Tonitrus]

OK.

We need pics.

This shouldn't have taken 3 pages to get to.  Languish is dying!

[Viking]

OK.

We need pics.

This shouldn't have taken 3 pages to get to.  Languish is dying!

It's not like they are going to look like lyla garrity

[The Larch]

I wonder how quoting scripture feels like while showing midriff.

[Caliga]

Right - and the school put a stop to it. This is a story that shows that we are making progress, even in Caliga's home state.