Joyful Noise: Religious Freedom Restoration

[rangerrebew]

Joyful Noise: Religious Freedom Restoration
 
by Anne Schlafly, Chairman, Eagle Forum

It is time to reclaim our religious freedoms in the public arena! Freedom, including our freedom to worship, is the very heartbeat of America. For the last fifty years, court rulings have placed strict restrictions on the practice of religion. The judiciary had a hostility to religious expression, using the misconception that the state and church were required to be separated.

In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Lemon v. Kurtzman that public monies could not be used in religious schools, which had the effect of stopping prayer in public schools. The three-prong “Lemon Test” stipulated that any law must:

Have a secular, non-religious purpose.

Its primary effect must not advance or inhibit religion.

It must not create excessive entanglement between the government and religion.

We have reaped the whirlwind of the last fifty years when our government removed God from the public square. The result of the courts’ cancelling the public expression of faith has been fifty years of worshiping the state instead of worshiping God.

https://eagleforum.org/publications/efr/nov2025/joyful-noise-religious-freedom-restoration.html

[Kamaji]

I’d be very careful about one asks for in this regard.  Do we want the Muslim call to prayer being broadcast on the school PA system all day?

This is the proverbial camels nose in that tent.

[mountaineer]

I’d be very careful about one asks for in this regard.  Do we want the Muslim call to prayer being broadcast on the school PA system all day?
This is the proverbial camels nose in that tent.

Quite true.

[libertybele]

I’d be very careful about one asks for in this regard.  Do we want the Muslim call to prayer being broadcast on the school PA system all day?

This is the proverbial camels nose in that tent.

Indeed

[roamer_1]

I’d be very careful about one asks for in this regard.  Do we want the Muslim call to prayer being broadcast on the school PA system all day?

This is the proverbial camels nose in that tent.

That goes both directions... It's been decades since I have heard church bells on Sunday morning. And that's a damn cryin shame.

My brother called me on speakerphone from New Orleans just so I could hear the church bells going off. I dang near cried.

[Kamaji]

That goes both directions... It's been decades since I have heard church bells on Sunday morning. And that's a damn cryin shame.

My brother called me on speakerphone from New Orleans just so I could hear the church bells going off. I dang near cried.

Are you willing to have church bells and the muezzin's call to the faithful - five times a day - at the same time?

[roamer_1]

Are you willing to have church bells and the muezzin's call to the faithful - five times a day - at the same time?

Nope. And that ain't the only way that can be resolved.

[roamer_1]

We're getting our 10 Commandments back in front of the courthouse btw...

Don't expect the Muzzies will get their shit there either.

[libertybele]

That goes both directions... It's been decades since I have heard church bells on Sunday morning. And that's a damn cryin shame.

My brother called me on speakerphone from New Orleans just so I could hear the church bells going off. I dang near cried.

That is a cryin shame -- I can't remember the last time I heard church bells; probably when I was a kid.  Plenty of churches in the area, but I don't think any of them even have bells.

[Kamaji]

Nope. And that ain't the only way that can be resolved.

How else do you propose to resolve the matter?  Killing all the muslims?

[240B]

the adhan of the Muslims is a call to war
they want you to kill
the peaceful bells of a Sunday morning is a calm chime for God
this is how we are so different

[libertybele]

How else do you propose to resolve the matter?  Killing all the muslims?

One word:  DEPORTATION 

[Kamaji]

One word:  DEPORTATION 

Every single person who practices Islam, even those who were born in the U.S. to parents who are both U.S. citizens?

[roamer_1]

How else do you propose to resolve the matter?  Killing all the muslims?

No. Go to Dearborn. I betcha you'll hear em holler, just fine. Same in Detroit, at least for a while, btw.

But no church bells, almost anywhere. That should tell you something.