pallidin Posted June 27, 2018 #1 Share Posted June 27, 2018 A rather curious event... School District Tells Coach, ‘If You Talk to God, You’re Fired’ See here: https://www.toddstarnes.com/show/school-district-tells-coach-if-you-talk-to-god-youre-fired/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danydandan Posted June 27, 2018 #2 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Only in America. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoofGardener Posted June 27, 2018 #3 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Hmmm... was he REALLY fired for praying, or where there other incidents ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted June 27, 2018 Author #4 Share Posted June 27, 2018 22 minutes ago, RoofGardener said: Hmmm... was he REALLY fired for praying, or where there other incidents ? There is a "claim" that he was proselytizing on school grounds beyond his "personal prayer"... Not sure about the details or varacity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jodie.Lynne Posted June 27, 2018 #5 Share Posted June 27, 2018 17 minutes ago, pallidin said: There is a "claim" that he was proselytizing on school grounds beyond his "personal prayer"... Not sure about the details or varacity. So we'll just leap to the conclusion that this man was unjustly fired for being Christian, right?. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jodie.Lynne Posted June 27, 2018 #6 Share Posted June 27, 2018 It seems there is more to the story...…. http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-football-coach-prayer-20170823-story.html 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted June 27, 2018 Author #7 Share Posted June 27, 2018 3 minutes ago, Jodie.Lynne said: So we'll just leap to the conclusion that this man was unjustly fired for being Christian, right?. Not at all I just thought it was an interesting story with some unknowns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jodie.Lynne Posted June 27, 2018 #8 Share Posted June 27, 2018 check the news item I linked. He wasn't just 'quietly taking a knee'. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Commander Travis Posted June 27, 2018 #9 Share Posted June 27, 2018 I suppose it depends on the job. If you're an airline pilot, say, chatting to God might prompt a few people to look at you askance. Similarly if you were a surgeon in the middle of an operation. It might prompt the nurse to quietly move the scalpel out of reach. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danydandan Posted June 27, 2018 #10 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Can't read the article in the EU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted June 27, 2018 Author #11 Share Posted June 27, 2018 6 minutes ago, Jodie.Lynne said: check the news item I linked. He wasn't just 'quietly taking a knee'. I understand that. I'm just reporting the news, not defending him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jodie.Lynne Posted June 27, 2018 #12 Share Posted June 27, 2018 @pallidin I get that, I am just presenting a less biased accounting of the incident. A few years back, there was a mild to-do about a group of Christians who were allegedly arrested for praying in public. At least, that was the spin that the Christian media outlets tried to put on it. It turned out that the group decided to set up a little protest against an LGBT rally. The rally had all the proper permits, the Xtians did not. And when they decided to heckle, harangue, and harass the crowd, the Police stepped in. The group was arrested for: - lack of proper permits for a public meeting - disturbing the peace - resisting arrest and NOT for praying in public. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stubbly_Dooright Posted June 28, 2018 #13 Share Posted June 28, 2018 (edited) I think I remember this guy being in the news some years back. Well, if this is the same guy. (His firing was in 2015, right?) Anyways, like Jodie posted it, it seems he was making sure he had an audience. (Well, that's what I remember reading when I first originally read this new's bit about year or so ago.) And when he was given the opportunity to be able to pray, (within private, yet on the job means) he ended up going back to making sure he had an audience. And an audience that didn't share his belief system. (To me, makes me wonder at his thought process for doing this.) So, if we look at it in the original way of how the thought of for this thread, he was allowed to 'talk to God'. He just wasn't allowed to 'encourage' or 'shame' others into helping him 'talk to God'. That's how I see it. And to add: Reading about the Satanist's goal, (did I read that right?) for wanting to do something similar, shows a precedent for others to do the same. Did the ex-coach realize this was going to happen? Edited June 28, 2018 by Stubbly_Dooright Just to add something....... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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