Federal Judge in Texas Lashes Gingrich Saying He Should Be Ashamed of His Demagoguery

[The Straight Story]

Federal Judge in Texas Lashes Gingrich Saying He Should Be Ashamed of His Demagoguery


(CN) - A federal judge who enjoined school prayer and was attacked as "un-American" has fired fired back at the politicians, saying, "You should be ashamed of yourselves."

After whom Newt Gingrich bashed him as "un-American," Fred Biery, chief U.S. District Judge in San Antonio, wrote in a settlement order, "To those in the executive and legislative branches of government who have demagogued this case for their own political goals: You should be ashamed of yourselves."

Biery granted a temporary restraining order requested in May 2011 by an agnostic family who said prayers at their son's graduation violated their First Amendment rights. Christa and Danny Scholt's son was a Medina Valley High School senior in the Medina Valley Independent School District.

Biery's order would have eliminated the benediction and invocation from the event, and prevented student speakers from engaging the audience in prayer. But on the eve of the ceremony, the 5th Circuit threw out the injunction on appeal, calling it hastily issued based on an ever-changing record.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/02/14/43868.htm

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1. Bravo, Judge Biery!! Give 'em he11!

This should be settled law by now: that *government-run* schools have NO power to tell anybody when to pray, how to pray, what to say when they pray, or whom to pray to!

The religious "right" should be the ones most loudly defending this principle. Instead, in their ignorance, they claim it's a violation of "their" freedom--as if the freedom of non-Christians is of no consequence.

"And the Lord uses the good ones,
and the bad ones use the Lord."
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