Medina Lake Texas

Texas District Judge Biery: More Dictatorship of the Juristocracy

It is hard these days to keep up with all of the edicts issued by the Dictatorship of the Juristocracy, so please forgive the tardiness of this writer in pointing out the absurdity of a ruling handed down earlier this month, requiring a school district in Texas to bar all prayer and even religious words and phrases at commencement ceremonies. U.S. District Court Judge Fred Biery ordered that words such as "prayer" and "amen" be banned from graduation ceremonies in the Medina Valley Independent School District. One might well wonder why Judge Almighty even allows the district to retain the word "Independent" in its title, though he might value it as a relic of an earlier time when the omnipotence of judges had not yet been discovered and the people had not yet made their proper obeisance.

Now, as it turned out, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the judge's ruling just in time for the commencement ceremonies, which were filled with prayers and much cheering from the audience. And when the word "amen" was uttered, the "wall of separation" between church and state did not come tumbling down like the walls of Jericho, about which one also must make no mention in a public school. Nor, if Judge Biery had had his way, might anyone in such a fine taxpayer-supported academic setting have made mention of the gates of Hell, which no doubt surround and protect Judge Biery's courtroom.

But let's look back at the judge's ruling. It came in response to a petition of Christa and Danny Schultz, whose son was to participate in a graduation ceremony held by the school district. The judge, in his Solomonic wisdom, discovered that the boy and his parents would "suffer irreparable harm" if there were any prayer or mention of prayer at the ceremony. This was another in a long series of efforts to stand the First Amendment on its head and use it to guarantee that any secular, publicly-funded institution must not only be prevented from promoting a religious viewpoint, it must be actively engaged in suppressing religious expression. Fortunately, for those who wish to check the record, the right-side-up version of the First Amendment is still available for any and all, even judges, to read. It says the following:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

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