Students pray before Soddy-Daisy game [View All]

Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press

More than 1,200 students, fans and football players stood hand-in-hand and prayed Friday night at the Soddy-Daisy and Rhea County football game.

This comes after Superintendent Jim Scales banned public prayer over public address systems after being pressured from a national organization.

One student asked the fans to join them on the 50-yard line while they prayed. Observers said there was no microphone, just a private prayer between the two communities and a mass “amen.”

Read more: http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010/oct/22/students-pray-soddy-daisy-game/

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The drama continues! The great you-can't-make-this-stuff-up thing is that they are playing Rhea County, of the Scopes Monkey Trial fame.

Apparently it wasn't enough though, as Soddy-Daisy lost the game.

I think this is great - hopefully those students just learned that they have freedom of speech - nobody is stopping them, there is no anti-Christian purge - but that the government does not.

Well, I hope some of them will get it.