ACLU lose! First Amendment wins!
One of three Florida school officials accused of violating a court order forbidding prayer in school has been exonerated.
Santa Rosa County School District clerical assistant Michelle Winkler has had her day and court and has come out victorious. Winkler was accused of violating a court order that banned school officials from participating in religious activities on campus before, during, and after school hours when she asked her husband who is not employed by the school district to offer prayer at an event.
Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver seems surprised why the matter even made it to court. “And in fact in this case, Michelle Winkler was at an event after school at a Naval facility, off site, that was privately sponsored,” he explains.
Staver, whose firm represented Winkler, says the American Civil Liberties Union told the media going into the hearing that they had a rock-solid case. But after seven-and-a-half hours, the judge found that Winkler was not in violation of the court order — and that the court order was vague and did not specify as to what constituted a school-sponsored religious activity.
As the Christian attorney puts it: “The wheels came off the ACLU’s steamroller.”
So, the ACLU’s attempt to stifle the free speech of an American citizen to express their religion failed. Sounds like wonderful news to me!
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