ICC Note: Across the United States secular organizations are working hard to ensure that all public institutions are “cleansed” of any references to religion or faith. In the latest attack, a Georgia high school has been told to ensure that football coaches do not participate in team prayers and all religious references are removed from team documents. The American Humanist Association has threatened to sue the school if it does not comply with its demands, sent in a seven-page letter this month. Congressman Doug Collins is standing up on behalf of the school, saying that Georgia’s citizens have a right to religious freedom that cannot be impinged. 

8/28/2014 United States (ONN) – According to atheists at the American Humanist Association, the only bowing down on a knee at Chestatee High School’s gridiron should be a quarterback downing the ball, as any semblance of prayer will result in a lawsuit.

The message AHA is sending the Hall Country School Board is loud and clear: cleanse the school of religion or prepare to be sued. This warning was submitted to school board members in the form of a seven-page letter on behalf of a single citizen who chose to remain anonymous, demanding that the football team’s coaches no longer join in team prayers and that they take out all references to the Bible and religious messages from team documents.

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AHA attorneys submitted a letter to the school district claiming that Chestatee High School, located not far from Gainesville in northeastern Georgia, was carrying out their tradition of team prayer in violation to the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Included in the complaint is the school’s alleged unconstitutional acts of allowing the Bible verse reference “Iron Sharpens Iron, Proverbs 27:17” on the team’s workout schedule and “Fortitude 2014, Ga. 6:9” on a cheerleader sign.

To AHA’s accusations, U.S. Congressman Doug Collins, who represents Georgia’s Ninth Congressional District, says guilty as charged.

“The liberal atheist interest groups trying to bully Chestatee High School kids say they have a reason to believe that expressions of religious freedom are ‘not an isolated event’ in Northeast Georgia,” Collins declared in a statement. “They’re right. In Hall County and throughout Georgia’s 9th district, we understand and respect the Constitution and cherish our right to worship in our own way.”

Collins is amazed that while American soldiers are fighting overseas to give Iraqi Christians the freedom to worship and exercise their religion as they choose, the United States has a group of attorneys fighting to take away those very rights from American youngsters here at home.

“It’s utterly disgusting that while innocent lives are being lost in Iraq and other places at the hands of radical religious terrorists, a bunch of Washington lawyers are finding the time to pick on kids in Northeast Georgia,” asserted Collins, who found it hard to grasp that Christian high school football coaches who pray are funneled into the category of religious extremists by the atheist organization.

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