 hey atheists leave those kids alone where there is a whiff of common sense the liberals descend to try and beat it into submission  an attorney with the freedom from religion foundation a selfdescribed association of atheists and agnostics sent a letter to mona shores superintendent dave peden warning him that mona shores high school s association with the baccalaureate ceremony violated the us constitution of course the superintendent bravely faced down those interlopers that would try to interfere with a tradition in their district telling them to mind their own business and go kiss some primordial muck ha just kidding he rolled over and claimed mercy from the semistern letter he received in a response to attorney rebecca markert peden thanked her for bringing the issue to his attention he wrote that the district s attorney made recommendations on how the district can avoid the aura of affiliation in the future aura of affiliation only to liberals and atheists and apparently school superintendents is having an aura of affiliation to church a bad thing having an aura of affiliation with the local s m club is probably wonderful to them but don t you dare have an optional school event mention god for fifteen seconds how dare you push your religion on me don t you remember the crusades the salem witch trials touched by an angel what kind of horror could that fifteensecond prayer do to young impressionable minds markert said the complainant is a member of the freedom of religion foundation she declined to provide any more information about that person saying some people aren t out in the community as far as being an atheist she said the foundation has about 21000 members including 540 in michigan so how many of those 540 freedom of religion foundation in michigan were going to be affected by prayer in a school in a community of 22000 people to an event where only 13 of the students typically attend my guess is zero this complainant may or may not live in the area and apparently is ashamed to be outted as an atheist i mean what would the family say he seemed so normal with his prius and his obama tshirt and his coexist bumper sticker and darwinfish logo we never suspected he didn t believe in god and don t you love the name freedom of religion foundation i wonder if they hold their cultlike meetings where they worship the onecelled organisms humans are supposed to have derived from in our experience sometimes we get superintendents especially in kentucky and tennessee who say we knew this was wrong but the community wanted to have it done and we wanted to proceed on it until somebody called us out she said in my experience liberals will say and do anything to get their way perhaps even lying to a news site to make their opponents look bad i work with a jewish woman when we have workcatered meals which is several times a week there are several things she can t eat because of her beliefs you know what she does doesn t eat the bacon and doesn t complain that it s there she acts like a grown up the opposite reaction the freedom of religion foundation approach would be to whine that there was something she didn t like and try to get bacon banned here is my view if you don t believe in god that s your problem not mine but i hope you learn sooner or later what the truth really is sooner is better in the meantime how about you respect the customs and institutions of a community instead of pushing their views on them i m sure you re all about locallysourced vegetables how about locallysourced traditions  