Government: “STOP PRAYING!”

[rangerrebew]

Government: “STOP PRAYING!”

December 29, 2016
Government: “STOP PRAYING!”
A nun prays in Saint Peter's Square, a day after the election of Pope Francis, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of...

Government officials in Kansas claim that the First Amendment protects merely your right to choose your religion, and nothing more. First Liberty is representing the case of a resident told to "stop praying" in her own home.

    Mary Ann Sause was allegedly told to stop praying in her own home one night when police officers came to her apartment to investigate a noise complaint.
    In September, First Liberty and volunteer attorneys appealed her case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, claiming that the officers had violated her religious freedom rights by telling her to stop praying.
    First Liberty appealed the district court’s ruling on September 28, 2016 to say that the officer’s order to stop praying had indeed burdened her ability to exercise her religion.
    The opponents filed their reply brief on October 31, arguing that Sause’s First Amendment right was not violated since the First Amendment only protects the right to choose one’s religion.

- See more at: http://www.trunews.com/article/government-stop-praying#sthash.IxfD40j3.dpuf

[rangerrebew]

This, I am sure, does not apply to muzzies, or at the least won't enforce it on them.

[thackney]

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.

[XenaLee]

This, I am sure, does not apply to muzzies, or at the least won't enforce it on them.

 

Frightened and traumatized, Sause requested the officer’s permission to pray. The officer acquiesced, and Sause knelt on her prayer rug to pray silently. But when the second officer saw her praying, he ordered, “get up” and “stop praying,” to which Sause complied. Rather than address the purported noise complaint, the officers continued to harass Sause - See more at: http://www.trunews.com/article/government-stop-praying#sthash.IxfD40j3.JH4wLeRW.dpuf

[guitar4jesus]

More info....

http://www.charismanews.com/politics/issues/60254-kansas-police-you-can-t-pray-in-your-own-home

[Cripplecreek]

 

Frightened and traumatized, Sause requested the officer’s permission to pray. The officer acquiesced, and Sause knelt on her prayer rug to pray silently. But when the second officer saw her praying, he ordered, “get up” and “stop praying,” to which Sause complied. Rather than address the purported noise complaint, the officers continued to harass Sause - See more at: http://www.trunews.com/article/government-stop-praying#sthash.IxfD40j3.JH4wLeRW.dpuf

If a prayer draws a noise complaint, you're doing it wrong.

Frankly the woman sounds like a nut and the story is pure propaganda.

[TomSea]

She had a run-in with them about last September and the article calls her a Catholic.

http://www.charismanews.com/politics/issues/60254-kansas-police-you-can-t-pray-in-your-own-home

According to attorneys representing a Louisburg, Kan., woman, police forced their way into her home, telling her the Constitution was "just a piece of paper" that "doesn't work here," before telling her she could not pray in her home.

All over a simple noise complaint about her radio being turned up too loudly.

According to attorneys for the First Liberty Institute, which are representing Mary Anne Sause, a Catholic former nurse, she was home late at night when the police came to her home. When they knocked at the door, they did not identify themselves as police, and with her front door's "peephole" inoperative, she did not open the door.

They returned later and identified themselves as police, then demanded to be let in to her apartment. As they berated her for not letting them in the first time, they refused to give a specific reason why they were there, as is required. When she showed them a copy of the Constitution and Bill of Rights given to her by her congressman, one of the officers mockingly said, "that's nothing, it's just a piece of paper—[it] doesn't work here."

[goatprairie]

If a prayer draws a noise complaint, you're doing it wrong.

Frankly the woman sounds like a nut and the story is pure propaganda.

Yes, this might be a case of the story that is not being told. The pro-religion people want it to be authorities stopping a religious person from praying and violating her constitutional rights.  I seriously doubt cops are going to try and stop someone for simply praying in their own home.
 Maybe a little digging might find it a person making a lot of noise and irritating her neighbors while "exercising her constitutional rights."