ABP's Bob Allen writes about a team of high school cheerleaders in a North Georgia community now barred from their tradition of carrying religious messages onto the field. In the battle of 16-year-old logic versus the church-state expertise of Brent Walker, I'm going with Brent on this one. Also, he's right.
"The majority is Christians, and it's just not fair that we can't spread God's Word," said cheerleader Courtney Born. "It's just our football team running through motivational Bible verses. I mean it doesn't hurt anything."
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"Religious freedom is a fundamental right, and public-school students have many opportunities to express their religious views," said Brent Walker, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. "Public schools, however, must refrain from sponsoring religious exercises or otherwise promoting religion.""School-sponsored events should not send a religious message," Walker said. He said the Georgia school system "gets it right in saying parents should be able to trust that the public education their children are receiving does not purposely advance religious views."
