AgapePress reports students nationwide have gathered to pray and worship around their school flagpoles for the 17th annual "See You At The Pole." The student-led event is held before class on the fourth Wednesday each September. Doug Clark of the National Network of Youth Ministries estimates that yesterday's SYATP observance attracted two million students at tens of thousands of schools in every state. Clark says he knows of only one school, a public middle school in Louisiana, where the principal refused to let students pray around the flagpole before class. And he says there are other reports of Christian students being heckled by their classmates. But students who participated also said it encouraged them and gave them opportunities to share their faith with classmates.

Liberty Letters Comment: And why not? Aren't our schools supposed to be a place where young men and young women are supposed to learn about freedom: freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and that our rights are not the gift of the state but of Almighty God? That's what used to be part of the status quo in American education, and ought to be once again. Amen to pole prayers. Congratulations to those young folks across the nation who had the guts to stand down the socialists and secularists of America who would overthrow all that is precious to u s, and stand up for God, Christ, and the American way.

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