'Beware priests who quote Scripture only selectively, especially when they are also dishonestly selective in quoting the Constitution.' writes QuinHillyer
And when the priest is saying a football coach should not be allowed to pray in public, it’s time to throw a penalty flag at the misleading minister.Writing in the April 27 Los Angeles Times, liberal Episcopal priest and author Randall Balmer argued that the Supreme Court, in a case for which it heard oral arguments this week, should rule against football coach Joe Kennedy, who was fired because he refused to stop praying on the field after games.
What’s particularly galling about Balmer’s column, though, is what it leaves out — both on the secular front and the Biblical one. On the former, only in passing does he cite the second clause of the First Amendment’s religious liberty protection, namely that Congress shall make no law “prohibiting the free exercise” of religion.
Yet that’s not this priest’s worst sin of omission. Balmer cites Jesus as an avid opponent of public prayers — all public prayers. He wrote that Jesus “castigated the religious authorities of his day for their public prayers” and “instructed his followers instead to ‘enter thy closet and … shut thy door’ to pray. ... Pray in a closet, not at the 50-yard line.
Kennedy says that is exactly what he is doing because if he says his prayers only in a closet, he is not glorifying his heavenly Lord.
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