Prayer in High School

I've been hearing the last few days about the high school valedictorian that wants to say a prayer during her speech, but can't because some agnostic family filed a lawsuit.  The more I hear about it, the more it pisses me off.  The agnostic family says it's invading on their civil rights.  What about the rights of the girl who wants to pray?  What about the fact that it says "in God we trust" on all of our currency?  What about the fact that it's okay for 1 person to file a lawsuit claiming that this girl is violating her rights, but the other 100 kids don't get a say in this?

It's like I've said for years, it's the very vocal minority that always gets their way.  The squeeky wheel syndrome.  The people that always file these lawsuits are the same ones that always preach about separation of church and state.  Saying that our fore-fathers(not four fathers like some of you cedar whackers have) never intended religion or faith to play a part in the governance or conscience of this country.  Apparently they slept through the important word.  You know, of.  As in, "Freedom OF Religion", vs. Freedom FROM Religion. 

See, this has always been my problem with this.  If you don't want to pray, don't.  If you don't even want to listen to it, put in your earphones.  The fact is, this country was founded because a few brave souls wanted to be able to worship and pray the way they wanted.  To the God that they wanted.  They fled religious persecution in Europe, where it was felt that uniformity of religion must exist in any society, in order for that society to flourish.  New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland, as a matter of fact, were founded with the sole intention of being religious sanctuaries.

The point of this little history lesson is that I have an issue every time one of these stupid morons files a suit saying their liberties are being infringed on.  Maybe I should file suit because these butt-heads are breathing air that was only intended for me.  Or maybe because they aren't listening to the right kind of music.  Or maybe they aren't wearing the right clothing.  I think it's a real slippery slope that we are wandering down when these types of lawsuits are filed, and then up-held. 

I mean, seriously, is it really that big a deal to these ass-clowns, or are they just trying to get their 15 minutes of fame?  It's along the same lines of when you hear about some long-haired kid that got kicked out of school because he refused to cut his hair.  The parents always sue the school instead of kicking that kid's ass all the way to the barber.  Saying it's his right to have long hair.  Newsflash...if he gets a copy of the code of conduct and it says boys can't have long hair, then grows it out anyway, he deserves to have his ass thrown out.(apparently the problem is that he can't read, so maybe they should sue the school for that instead!)  But instead of a little discipline, they sue.  And win. And as a side-note, you ever notice it's the little weasely guy with bad acne and a Batman sticker on his clarinet case that's the one kicked out?  Coincidence?

They say that if this kid prays during the graduation, she could go to jail for it.  I personally will take donations to bail her out of jail.  Then I'll take a statue of Baby Jesus and stick it in the law-suit filers front yard.  So it's your right not to have to listen to a prayer.  It's my right to listen to a prayer.  Why does your right carry more weight than mine? 

How about we just leave everybody else the hell alone and worry about our own sorry asses for once.