From the local ABC affiliate in Chattanooga, TN. A group of cheerleaders had a practice of holding up banners before football games for the football players to run through. These banners had religious as well as non-religious messages. The problem was with the religious messages.
A parent took offense at the message and called Catoosa County School Superintendent Denia Reese to voice her complaint. The superintendent did most public officials do when confronted with a complaint about religion. She promptly caved in and ordered the girls not to display the banners on the field.
The first amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
For the life of me, I cannot see how the first amendment applies to this. Did Congress pass a law here? This requires some serious ideological gymnastics in order to get the first amendment to remove the banners. We have reached a point in society where someone feels if they are offended, they have the right to have the offending article removed.
Once again, more than 2000 years after his death, Jesus is still causing people to rebel against their own consciences. If you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps is the one that got hit. First Corinthians 1:18 says: “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”
Tags: Catoosa County, Denia Reese
