To be clear, I am totally against government led prayer. Unlike some, I respect the Constitution of the United States which specifically states "
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." The United States Supreme court has historically upheld that school prayer cannot be required of students in accordance with the Establishment Clause and of the First Amendment. More specifically no child should be required to pray by a government institution. I respect your right pray and those that do are completely free to do so....what the government is not free to do is ask me or my child to stand, bow our heads and pray. It is not the governments job to teach or lead my child or myself prayer. In addition, by the government "sponsoring prayer", it excludes people of many faiths their rights to pray and forces them to pray in a way that is foreign to them. It does not allow people of (say the Muslin faith) to bring prayer rugs to school and the government does not allow nor would they lead prayer in a way that Muslims do. It's called respect for all religion and again, I realize that is a hard concept for some to grasp yourself included.
@earl, I get that people like or will ignore laws that don't suit them. Thank you for telling us you are one of those people. Our jails and prison systems are also full of such people. The fact they are in jail and/or prison speaks volumes to their own stupidity. I can't explain that and won't even try. As far as inmates working, again, according to State Statute (the laws of the state of Florida) inmates can be put to work for the public good meaning...
on public roads, bridges and other public works of the County including other public projects for which the governing body of the county could otherwise lawfully expend public funds and which it determines to be necessary for the health, safety, and welfare of the county. Churches are private organizations and State law does not exempt them from the law. I'm all about prisoners working for the
public good not private organizations.
I have told you I don't know how many times who I am. My name is Lynda and you can find me on FB as Lynda Diann. You seem to want to argue that point but there is no getting around it. It is who I am. The image used here is not fake. It happens to be a real photo of sunflowers (which I happen to love by the way) and I also have one tattooed on my ankle. They make me happy!
I am also all about the Sheriff putting prisoners to work to grow their own food. It saves taxpayer money and as long as the Sheriff stays on County owned property there would never be an issue from me about prisoners gardening. However, if the Sheriff decided he was going to send a "good ole boy" from jail out to some privately owned farm to plow and cultivate his land I would then have an issues. I'll give Sheriff Mike Adkinson credit, he knows better.