{"id":1187104,"date":"2022-01-10T13:15:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T18:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1187104"},"modified":"2022-01-10T13:15:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T18:15:06","slug":"atheist-group-targets-ohio-school-board-for-ending-prayer-with-our-savior-jesus-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/atheist-group-targets-ohio-school-board-for-ending-prayer-with-our-savior-jesus-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheist group targets Ohio school board for ending prayer with \u2018our savior Jesus Christ\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fatheist-group-targets-ohio-school-board-for-ending-prayer-with-our-savior-jesus-christ%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1187104&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) continues its crusade to stamp Christianity out of American civic life, now going after Ohio\u2019s Orrville City School District for starting its board meetings with Christian prayers.<\/p>\n<p>As is usually the case when FFRF spots people in public positions freely expressing religious faith, it was a \u201cconcerned district resident and parent\u201d who reported that Orrville City School Board meetings open with prayer. Prayers are not listed on the board\u2019s agenda, but reportedly are said after the Pledge of Allegiance.  The person who complained was able to flag the prayer as Christian, since it ended with \u201cour savior Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FFRF is quick to point out that non-religiously affiliated Americans make up the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population by religious identification \u2014 35 percent of Americans are non-Christians.<\/p>\n<p>FFRF tried to express why the choice of the nonreligious has more merit than that of people who do profess a religious faith:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStudents and parents have the right \u2014 and often have reason \u2014 to participate in school board meetings. It is coercive, embarrassing and intimidating for nonreligious citizens to be required to make a public showing of their nonbelief (by not participating) or else to display deference toward a religious sentiment in which they disbelieve,\u201d FFRF Staff Attorney Karen Heineman wrote in a letter to Greg Roadruck, Orrville City Schools Board of Education president.<\/p>\n<p>Yet is it not \u201ccoercive, embarrassing and intimidating\u201d to tell Americans they cannot publicly express their religious faith, muzzling them when they try to come together and make important decisions?<\/p>\n<p>FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor charged that \u201cThe board presumes to speak for the religious belief of the entire population of Orville City \u2014 a presumption that is quite certainly false.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) continues its crusade to stamp Christianity out of American civic life, now going after Ohio\u2019s Orrville City School District for starting its board meetings with Christian prayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}