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Arrested for Atheism

Ran across this lovely headline today.... http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/local/polk/school-board-arres... .

Pretty sad world when you're arrested for standing up for what you believe in, don't you think?

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Permalink Reply by SecularCortex13.x on February 23, 2011 at 1:39pm

saw it here too:

http://www.theledger.com/article/20110222/news/110229946

from Jarek Loovali @ facebook

he's on top of things like sun to earth

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Permalink Reply by FreeThinker on February 24, 2011 at 5:51am

People that want a public prayer in school obviously haven't read the Bible...

"When you pray, don't be like the hypocrites who love to pray publicly on street corners and in the synagogues where everyone can see them. I tell you the truth, that is all the reward they will ever get." Matthew 6:5

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Permalink Reply by Rebecca Hover on February 24, 2011 at 8:16am

Very well put, FreeThinker! I think, it's more disruptive to pray in public in the first place than to protest on behalf of your beliefs.

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Permalink Reply by Grace Fitzpatrick on February 25, 2011 at 9:31am

I hope he wins. The charges against him border on the ridiculous. Nonviolently resisting arrest? So he did nothing to these police officers and they charged him for it? I wonder how many other people have ever been arrested for having an anti anxiety pill in their pocket. I am guessing none.