re: Ole Miss officially under investigstion

If I ain't got a weapon, I'm gonna pick up a rock, and when I bust your arse, I'm gonna continue to rock.

Just turn Jihadi and the libs will leave you alone.

As anyone who has read my ramblings elsewhere on this site know, I'm not a religious person, but even this is a stretch.

So long as they are not mandatory, Freeze is doing nothing wrong by having religious services as a part of his program.

EDIT: I wonder how this will sit with the "Hugh Freeze is just faking it for the recruits" crowd at ExtreemDawgz.

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Sorry. maybe I wasn't clear.

One argument made is that they are having a religious activity in a football room, so therefore many football players may feel compelled to participate.

Using this argument, if the debate team used that same room to practice in, would the football team feel obligated to join the debate team?

The reasoning some of these "Freedom From" groups use just doesn't make sense....much like my prior post.

I HOPE my line of thinking is clearer now...not saying you would agree with it, just saying THEIR line of thinking doesn't hold water, IMO.

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It wouldn't really apply even if the coach forced all players to participate in the debate. The reason is simple - the 1st Amendment rulings regarding religion. You can neither favor a religion nor prohibit the practice of religion.**

The reason the 1st Amend and various rulings on it would apply to OM (and pretty much every university these days) is because it accepts state and federal funding. Public universities typically have more freedom in this regard than K-12 because with K-12 you're dealing with minors who are more vulnerable to coercion even when a school has no intention of coercing anyone, kids can feel far more pressure to attend things than adults. With secular/public universities there's less of that but they still have to abide by the general rule.

So even though the comparison of the debate team might seem similar it's not. When it comes to the various amendments, especially the 1st amendment you have to be very careful with public monies to make sure you're not favoring or forcing views and that you're not prohibiting them either.


**Except certain practices which fall under criminal activity, public safety, and/or child endangerment.

fricking pseudo-pagan liberal narcissists.

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You know if there was ever a program to get in trouble for being too Christian it would be ole miss

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Let us know when your coaches or players start using "It's a God Thing", or "When the Lawd be blessin the Devil be messin."

I'm torn on this one as I despise being led to the cross by evangelicals, but also can't stand the need for everyone to put their nose in everyone else's business. No matter what you say there is pressure on the players who are working for playing time to conform. I admire the conviction of Freeze and his views on religion it's just more a private issue with me and should be a personal choice.

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Or Rev Freeze telling Richie Brown in front of his parents "I am concerned for your soul if you sign with State".

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Right

He said this in a 247 interview