A Cabarrus County school board meeting in North Carolina went south when a newly-elected Christian board member asked to have the board say an invocation before meetings since it is a “time-honored Tradition of our country.” Melanie Freeman ran as a Christian.
Another Board member, Pamela Escobar went bonkers hearing of an invocation.
“So this to me is very disturbing, because I think it sends the wrong message that we’re trying to communicate,” she said. “And frankly, we are not in the business of faith or religion!
Praying is the opposite of teaching and inspiring.
“That’s not what we do. We teach. We empower, we inspire. And so, to do something that would be the opposite of that is disheartening.”
“On top of it, this board prays. This board prays before every meeting if you choose to be part of it,” she said, citing a prayer group before meetings.
“How much prayer do you need? How much God do you need?” Escobar said. “This is exclusionary.
“[School employees] come here to work. To dedicate their lives to children. They didn’t come here to pray with you,” she continued.
“If you want to pray with them, take them to church. You want to be evangelical and do that? Go for it. But not on my time, not on their time and not on this community’s time. We’re not in this business. This is not the time or the place. We’re better than that.”
“I don’t need to participate in that, and I don’t think you need to make the entire school board join you in your prayer. And if you do, then you have to be prepared for people to sue us because they have the right to religious freedom,” she said.
“I don’t know why you need prayer to take this job seriously.”
Escobar told the board the prayer would take time away from “serious issues” and would make people feel unwelcome.
I’m sure she can sit it out, and so can the audience of heathens they apparently want to welcome (just kidding).
The motion passed 5-2 to draft a written policy regarding the invocation and then invite public comment.
It seems to me that the USA did a lot better when we prayed. The invocation is going to be neutral.
This woman is demonic, and she likely would say a word if Satanists were performing a ritualistic human sacrifice at one of her board meetings. How did this nation ever get to this point?
Bet she is all in favor of the planned muslim takeover of our country… Capital M left for disrespect.
She sounds demented. Vote these nuts out of power at every level.
Christians should actually be AGAINST prayer in school and public places…it opens them up to being led in prayer by Muslims and other pagan gods, which Christians are forbidden by Scripture to participate in. Public prayer is a farce anyway. If you aren’t sincere, but praying as a “performance,” you are an offense to God. As a Christian in what has become a pagan society, I say no prayer is better than fake prayer or worse, praying to demons.
I actually follow this line of thinking. My point is Christanity has been banned in all respects in schools, yet Islam is taught.
I AGREE WITH “NO PRAYER” in public forums, especially none in schools except in clubs where the religion is defined. I am a Christian and a long time Bible teacher. I am also a critical thinker when it comes to long-term implications and consequences of actions, which is why I am 100% AGAINST prayer by people in public situations. In our society of rapidly growing Muslims, this opens a can of worms for the leaders praying to Allah. No thank you.
I do NOT want my grandchildren following along with a Muslim praying to Allah. I don’t want the idea instilled in their heads that God is some “everything” and reducing the God of Scripture to “any old what’s his name deity.” Prayer in public worked when America was 99.999 Christian. That time has passed. So NO…prayer to a pagan or imaginary God is far worse than no prayer at all. Teach your children at home!
Is she jewish?
The lady demanded that prayer be banned primarily because she would be offended. What makes her so special? People can be offended by all sorts of speech; but that doesn’t mean that any such speech should be banned because some find it offensive. The First Amendment guarantees free speech to all and all of us are called to honor that guarantee.
I’m reminded of 2012, when the Democratic convention in Charlotte, N.C. took an ugly turn, and the Dems booed God.
Can we say she is a God hater ?
The so call separation clause is a lie from the flaming pit invented by an fdr appointee. The phrase is no where to be found in any of the founding documents and we are not a secular nation and our Constitution and history has bee twisted by the left for over 100 years.
John Adams: ‘Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.’
Problem is, we have been turned toward the secular god of this world more than God, our Creator and His ways.
I agree.
The US Constitution’s First Amendment guarantees religious liberty by forbidding congress from establishing a religion or preventing the free exercise of faith.
It protects individual liberty to worship however one chooses without the government being allowed to interfere.
No man, government, religion, philosophy, etc. will stop what is occurring around the world. And that goes for our churches which have based their organizations (denominations) after mans organizations, not Gods Pattern for His Church and Families.
Man’s churches are failing as we enter the end of days of which we have been forewarned. Man’s Churches have assumed to themselves priesthoods and authority (as they supposed) thereby dividing believers one against another. They also assumed responsibilities which God ordained and appointed for Men and Women (The Family) not men’s churches. That is why Christian Families are failing like secular families.
What is God’s Church? It’s Jesus Christ and Born Again Believers having the indwelling of the Holy Spirit our True Guide, our True Teacher, our True Comforter along with God’s Word and the Testimony of His Creation. They are the living breathing Church Of God, adopted Sons and Daughters of God destined to be with Him throughout eternity.
Money has no value here, no trips to Alaska, no books to purchase, no – none of that.
I invite you visit https://www.knowingforyourself.com/
If nothing else read from the home page and then, at the top of the home page read from: God’s Family – God’s Church – Message of the Temple Veil, and the Women at the well – Rebuild Restore.
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Colossians 2:7-8 Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness. Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ.
She’s obnoxious – grandstanding like a typical “offended” Democrat who thinks she’s in control. It’s really simple – everyone is welcome to pray, no one has to participate.
It really is that simple.
sheesh ! They have all the answers ?
“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go.
My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
– Abraham Lincoln
ask this idiot to compare the U.S. in the 1950’s back to today. in every respect except technology we are worse. without prayer we don’t have the correct guidance so every perversion of man goes to the extreme. if this idiot doesn’t want to pray tell her to leave the room till the prayer is over.
Bo you make an excellent point and may God Bless you for it.
Oops, I meant Bob.
Well, then why did Ben Franklin strongly suggest to the room filled with the Founders of the United States as they wrote the Constitution? They were trying to do the business but were getting nowhere until they, as one body, asked God to help with the writing of the Constitution.
And He did!
All community business ought to ask God for wisdom in their meetings.
Has anybody ever noticed how the Godless Democrats who are running the big cities are running it into the ground?
From her comments, she would be a member of the damned. She needs removed. We all deserve better than her. This NATION was founded to the glory of God. Her school board should have an invocation before every meeting. Again, she needs removed. I would not want this menrptally I’ll person near my children!
Reminds me of the of the demons who were scared when confronted by Jesus. Perhaps this pig of a school board member will jump off a cliff into the ocean too.
Like a cross to a vampire or a silver bullet to a werewolf, Christianity is anathma to those who follow Satan and promote his insidious plans. The board member complaining says she’s a Christian; she’s lying. Christians are happy to celebrate God and his blessings on the US.
I agree Ramet! it’s the Church of today who is keeping that man of sin, the Antichrist, from taking his place as the global leader spoken of in Revelation…
Demon possession is a real thing.
God will get her for that.
Bet she’s a hoot at parties…
Leftist scold spent more time whining than it would take for a prayer. What are the odds she got her panties in a bunch if it were a muslim? You don’t have to ask a democrat/leftist if they’re a democrat/leftist, they’ll tell you and by their actions.
“And frankly, we are not in the business of faith or religion!”
You got that right sister…..Unless that faith and religion is leftism…
Our politicians turned our once proud white/black society into a garbage pale of diversity and multiple religions. How long before they all demand we hear their prayers. Wiccans and Satanists too.
Escobar would likely be 100% favorable if prayers were offered to Satan. Hopefully Americans are growing weary of these DEI and Woke creeps…and the Democrats they elect.
“School Board Member Bugs Out When She Hears They Might Say a Prayer”
—SOUNDS LIKE A TYPICAL LEFT-TARD OVERLY HYSTERICAL REACTION !!! SO WHY DIDN’T SHE JUST SHOUT OUT HER WORSHIP RITUAL FOR SATAN, AS SHE USUALLY DOES ???
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Another groomer. A Brigitte Macron wanna-be.
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