School bans ‘Tebowing’ style postgame prayer following ACLU complaint By Cameron Smith | Prep Rally – 2 hours 56 minutes ago Email Share118Tweet Some claim it’s postgame prayer. Others call it the latest round of “Tebowing”. Either way, Tim Tebow is going to be might upset. Lahser High has outlawed postgame prayer — Lahser Kight Life As reported by the Oakland Press, a high school in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. officially outlawed postgame prayer in response to a formal complaint about violation of separation of church and state that was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. The case in question focuses on Bloomfield Hills (Mich.) Lahser High, where the school’s football team led traditional post-game prayers at midfield, allowing members of its team and opponents to take part in the tradition of offering thanks for another game completed. The Tebowing comes in when one considers the position players take when involved in such prayers, standing on one knee with head bowed (which, of course, was the motivation behind Tebow’s original craze-inducing pose in the first place). Tebow, of course, is a devout Christian who has made a point of dedicating all of his accomplishments to the big man that Christians believe in upstairs (you know, the one whose name starts with a "J" and rhymes with "Beezus"). According to the Press, school officials immediately said that they would conform to the ACLU’s proposed guidelines and would not hold any postgame prayer sessions on school property. At the same time, Lahser officials insisted that they had never intended any student to feel uncomfortable because of the prayer sessions, which allegedly began more than a decade ago at the behest of a student athlete.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 12:44:06 +0000