Senior Citizens Ordered To Quit Saying Grace Before Meals. . . .

Senior Citizens Ordered To Quit Saying Grace Before Meals

According to jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com:

Want to say grace before a meal? Not so fast. That is the message given to some senior citizens at a nursing home.

But Senior Citizens Inc. officials said Friday the meals they are contracted by the city to provide to Ed Young visitors are mostly covered with federal money, which ushers in the burden of separating church and state.

On Thursday, the usual open prayer before meals at the center was traded in for a moment of silence.

Being raised in the south seeing people say grace before a meal is so woven into the fabric of life that I doubt many folks even give it a second thought and they certainly don't ponder the ramifications of what that action could mean just because the meal they are about to eat is somehow funded by the federal government. In fact I think the attitude may very well turn to telling the nursing home to cut the contract and if all they have to eat is pork and beans and macaroni and cheese, well then so be it.

This is just further evidence of what life is like under the heel of government which wants to protect you from cradle to grave. The problem is trying to figure out just what it is they are trying to protect you from.

For the record their is no separation of church and state. That whole thing came about because of letter Thomas Jefferson wrote one time that was then cited in a 1878 case involving a Mormon and his claim that bigamy was allowed under the Mormon religion. In fact part of the quote was misinterpreted.

"the legislative powers of the government reach actions only, and not opinions", Jefferson's original handwriting reads "the legitimate powers of the government reach actions only, and not opinions.".