Heathen Group Demands Tenn. School Cease Game Prayers
Oct 21, 2010 4 Comments ›› Grizz
The Associated Press
CHATTANOOGA, TENN. — A group that promotes the separation of church and state is demanding an end to prayers before football games at Soddy-Daisy High School.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press quoted the attorney for the Freedom from Religion Foundation, who said the Madison, Wis.-based organization sent a letter to local school leaders at the request of some students at the school near Chattanooga.
Staff attorney Rebecca Markert said the letter to Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Jim Scales was sent last week and objected to Christian prayers uttered over the school’s public address system.
A spokeswoman for the schools says Scales received the letter Monday, but was not yet ready to comment because the system’s lawyer was out of town.










