It’s hard to say who I would root for in a matchup between the American Civil Liberties Union and Clemson University. On one hand, you have a group of over-the-top, malevolent communists who use taxpayer dollars to fund their radical anti-American agenda, and on the other hand you have the ACLU.
I’m kidding of course… or am I?
Anyway, it turns out that we may get to see this epic battle unfold not on the gridiron, but in the courtroom. That’s because the ACLU doesn’t like the fact that Clemson head football coach Tommy Bowden encourages his players to attend a church service prior to the preseason.
That criticism has prompted the university to change a policy related to that annual event.
ACLU officials said that they have gotten complaints from some football players in recent years about Bowden’s “Church Day” tradition.
“We’ve been told he exerted some pressure on his football players to attend church as a mandatory event,” ACLU Religious Liberties Task Force chairman Neil Caesar said. “Apparently it was a different church each year . The students were strongly encouraged to attend.”
Clemson officials provided WYFF News 4 a copy of the letter Bowden sent out to parents earlier this summer, before the ACLU contacted the school.
“My Christian faith is something I take seriously, but it is not my position to impose this on someone else,” Bowden said in the letter. “Having said this, I strongly recommend attendance at a local church once per year as a team.
Clemson spokeswoman Cathy Sams said that the University has not received any complaints about the practice, but that university-owned buses will not be used to take the players to the services, which Sams stressed are voluntary.
“We don’t believe there is a violation of any laws or student rights,” Sams said. “In the past years, university buses were used and we do feel that’s probably not appropriate. In the future students will provide their own transportation.” [WYFF]
Exerted pressure to attend church? Give me a freaking break. What Bowden needs to do is use his fist to exert some pressure to this Caesar dude’s face.
Seriously, just because this guy’s name is Caesar he thinks he can go around harassing Christians? Someone needs to teach Mr. “Task Force Chairman” a history lesson because I think Caesar got assassinated for that kind of stuff.
I’m not sure what legal grounds they have to take the school to court, but rest assured that wherever there’s someone practicing Christianity, the ACLU will be there to stop them (And wherever there’s someone practicing the distribution-of-child-porn religion, the ACLU will be there to protect them as well).
So what’s my prediction? The ACLU will play a strong first quarter but Clemson’s defense will eventually prove too tough. Look for a close score at halftime with Clemson dominating the second half because the ACLU are basically a bunch of NAMBLA-loving sissies. Clemson wins by at least four votes.
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(h/t S.C. Appellate Law Blog)
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This is a bunch of crap !! The ACLU are made up of a bunch of athiest fools. That is one of the things that is wrong with our young people today. They are trying to take religion out of everything. If they don’t want to believe in Christ then they don’t have to, but they need to quit trying to stop those who are trying to keep kids on the right track in their lives. I give Tommy Bowden two thumbs up for what he does. I think that is great. These people are going to figure out that without God, you are nothing. ACLU leave us christians alone !!!!! Go worship the devil and burn in hell !!!
This is ridiculous that the ACLU continues to persecute Christians daily. We can impose anything on anyone but anything to do with God or Jesus Christ according to them while they can push their homosexual, antichristian, anti-God messages and beliefs on everyone else. It sickens me how they continue shove their messages down Christian’s throats. I applaud Tommy Bowden for standing up for his beliefs. If some players do not want to go to the function then so be it. But they were encouraged and welcomed to go to the function. I would like to ask the members “Anti-Christ Legal Unit” what they plan to do in eternity. Or where they think they will spend it? They will have to die one day just like everyone else. May be they can tell God how they tried to destroy every symbol that represented Him. I want to hear what they say on that day, judgment day.
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