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   The injured player was on the ground being tended to by trainers   
   and coaches.   
      
   So the Seminole High School football team did what many football   
   teams do. The teenage boys took a knee, bowed their heads and   
   prayed for their injured teammate.   
      
   But that simple act of compassion and humanity in Sanford,   
   Florida sparked outrage from the Freedom From Religion   
   Foundation – a group of perpetually offended atheists from   
   Wisconsin.   
      
   An FFRF attorney fired off a letter to the superintendent of   
   Seminole County Public Schools – accusing them of having an   
   adult lead the prayer for the injured child.   
      
   It truly takes a special kind of evil to threaten Americans   
   because they prayed over an injured child.   
      
   A school district spokesman told me the injured child, who is   
   the son of the team’s head coach, has since rejoined the team.   
      
   “It is our information and understanding that Seminole High   
   School (is) allowing an adult, a local pastor, to act as a   
   ‘volunteer chaplain’ for the football team,” FFRF attorney   
   Andrew Seidel wrote.   
      
   The attorney said the school cannot “allow a non-school adult   
   access to the children in its charge, and certainly cannot grant   
   that access to a pastor seeking to organize prayer for the   
   students.”   
      
   The FFRF told the school district to “refrain from having a   
   ‘volunteer team chaplain’ at Seminole High School.   
      
   The school district said the prayer was instigated by students   
   and denied that a chaplain prayed with the team. School   
   spokesman Mike Blasewitz told MyNews13.com that the school   
   doesn’t even have a team chaplain, contrary to the FFRF’s   
   allegations.   
      
   “There is nothing to cease and desist because our behavior was   
   within the guidelines in the first place,” he told television   
   station WFTV. “No adults in the photo, no adults participating,   
   no adults leading it.”   
      
   Seidel told me in a written statement that he’s satisfied with   
   the school’s response – and they now consider the matter closed.   
      
   “FFRF is very pleased with central Florida's new-found   
   commitment to upholding the First Amendment and protecting the   
   rights of conscience of all students, not just Christians,” he   
   said.   
      
   Parents, meanwhile, are a bit perturbed with the atheist   
   bullying.   
      
   “There are a lot more important issues going on in the world   
   than worrying about kids praying at a game,” parent Andre   
   Collins told ClickOrlando.com. “We live in a country where we’re   
   free to do what we want to do.”   
      
   Barbara Frase has a grandson on the football team. She could not   
   believe the atheists would call out the kids for praying.   
      
   “Come on, let’s get real,” she told ClickOrlando.com.   
      
   Seminole County is not the first school district targeted by   
   these rabid atheists – and they won’t be the last. Earlier this   
   week, I exposed the Christian cleansing underway in Orange   
   County, Florida public schools.   
      
   But it truly takes a special kind of evil to threaten Americans   
   because they prayed over an injured child.   
      
   Heaven help us all.   
      
   --   
   The abortionists shut up when a few notables got their brains   
   blown out in public.   
      
   The atheists will do the same.   
      
   You know what to do.   
      
       
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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