Once again, Christians trying to force those of other faiths (and, no faiths) to follow their religion?

Heh Heh

I belong to a sports league where they banned religious slogans on sports paraphenilia on the notion that an appeal to a divinity (or to magic) would constitute cheating

(much like steroids)

:-D

Just ot be a "divinity's Advocate" -

who has standing to oppose a private student slogan?

who is injured by cheerleaders writing "God help our team"?

who are they forcing their faith upon?

EDIT -

Ooh!

maybe if they were to put the slogans on the T-shirts and undies!!

something like

Left Brst "god"

Rit Brst "help"

bottom "the team"

EDIT2 -

I must respectfuly disagree with your answers to my questions

IF they are in fact a private slogan at a game, then they are protected by the First Amendment.

The Christian fanatic is as free to hold up a sign say "Jesus bless team A"

as the girl who writes "Bob Smith, I want to have your baby!"

or the Muslim fanatic who writes "Allah bless team B"

or the fat guy who rips his shirt off and paints his belly in team colors.

MY objection to the banner is because in effect it is not a private banner.

It represents the school cheerleading team.

Thus it appears to be a message from the school itself.

Thus, the person who it hurts is a theoretical Muslim or Atheist or Hindu student who feels that she can not be part of the school sporting tradition.

IMO - IF it was a private person against the school it would be an easier case.

however -

it can get to be a tricky case if there is no school official that will own up to responsibility -- and in fact it is the school telling them to take it down --

if the school is serious, the school may need to make a generic policy statement restricting all support banners (they may get into trouble restricting "religious messages")

That's not exactly forcing you to follow their religion though. It's ignorant and rather pathetic, imo. But I don't see that as forcing anyone to follow their religion. No more than if they had a prayer before the game. No one there is actually forcing you to do anything with it.

Of course they wouldn't be fighting FOR that. They would fight against it. People like that only want their religion represented. Which is why I think it's pathetic and hypocritical for those people to say that their religion offers Freedom when they do everything in their power to keep all other religions and non-religious from being represented on the same "playing field".

I have no use for people like that. And I hope they're told to stuff it over the verses on the field.

Christians believe that thier God gives them the right to do this sort of thing. Forcing others to deal with their beliefs all the time is a part of this. There are people who don't see how these little things are slowly taking over our country. Hopefully sanity will prevail that this sort of thing is stopped but I doubt it. The push towards a christian theocracy here is on.

I think if any of the team members objected, it'd be a legitimate issue. Otherwise, it'd rate a 'meh' afaic. Your BQ is valid however...if they were Islamic prayers, I wonder how many fans their Facebook page would've gotten?

We don't force anyone to follow anything. If someone does force you, they are not a christian. Atheists, however, force us to change to their faith all the time. Why do you guys only look at one side of the question?

Quite right too ... bouncing breasts and flashing their underwear should be all the Christianity a God-fearing hypocritical cheerleader requires.

Sometimes I despair of humanity, I really do!

At what point was everyone forced to believe in and worship God?

I think your BQ is the only Q and the answer is a resounding "not a snowballs chance in Tartarus."

It's not a question of once again. It's a question of daily. This one just happened to make the national news.

I am a Christian, but I am not a cheerleader from Texas. So I am not guilty.