Judge Blocks Prayer At High School Graduation

High School graduation is a rite of passage, it's a time to celebrate past accomplishments and look forward to future endeavors.

Graduation is a time when students take pride in the hard work and dedication that culminated in such a joyous ceremony. But it's also a period of reflection when students give thanks to their parents, friends and teachers that made their graduation possible.

Some kids even silently and privately give thanks to god on this momentous day -- as is their right and privilege.

But god should have no place in the graduation ceremony, it's a secular event that should have no religious trappings.

Unfortunately, many principals throughout this great country ruin graduation ceremonies by having priests or ministers recite a prayer.

Thank God for judges and the ACLU who are constantly battling these religious extremists who spoil graduation ceremonies with their religious tyranny.

A federal judge blocked the inclusion of a benediction as part of a high school graduation ceremony in Louisville, KY.

The ACLU argued that any prayer would be unconstitutional because it would endorse a specific religion.

U.S. District Judge Joseph McKinley granted a temporary restraining order sought by a student who didn't want prayer to be part of the graduation ceremony.

Why should a student who doesn't believe that god had any part in his scholastic success by forced to listen to a prayer on one of the most important days of his life? Why should a Muslim student be required to endure a prayer by a Christian minister? Why should a pagan kid's graduation be ruined by a benedition by a fundamentalist preacher?

Graduation should be a happy event in which kids celebrate their accomplishments, injectiing religion to this secular event is a divisive and selfish act.

Schools should be a religion-free zone, kudos to Joseph McKinley!