Going thru some old clippings we came across a very
controversial time in 2017, football season. During this period,
despite what the law read, what a Supreme Court case decided and
most of all, what was right for multi religion freedoms,
Clayberry as we called it back then, went ape shirt nuts.
Attendance at Sch Board meetings swelled. Dimly lits printed up
special t shirts proclaiming our complete resistance to the law
of the land.
Three weeks later, the controversy subsided and
life got back to normal
Here's one of the TV reports:
TV Prayer at Ball game
Monday Aug 28th and Friday after game
UPDATE: Clay County players and fans pray out loud during moment
of silence
By Blaine Carragher |
Posted: Fri 11:25 PM, Sep 01, 2017 |
Updated: Fri 11:55 PM, Sep 01, 2017
UPDATE 9/1/2017 @ 11 p.m.
CLAY COUNTY W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Before Friday night's match up
between Clay County and Braxton County, both teams knelt in
prayer at the center of the field.
Prayer is nothing new for Clay County High School football
games, but Friday was the first night of a new mandate: prayer
cannot be read over the loudspeaker.
After someone voiced a concern to Clay County Schools about the
practice, the school decided to instead observe a moment of
silence.
"If anyone wishes to pray, I by all means wish that they would,"
Clay County High School Principal Crystal Gibson told WSAZ
Friday night.
Several fans wore shirts that said, "I'm gonna pray anyway."
When the moment of silence was called for, both teams rushed the
field and prayed out loud while some people in the stands did,
as well.
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ORIGINAL STORY
CLAY COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Friday night football will be
different in Clay County this fall.
There will no longer be a pregame prayer read aloud over the
speaker. Instead, there will be a moment of silence. The county
plans to adopt this general rule before all school events.
Clay County Schools Superintendent Joe Paxton tells WSAZ the
decision came after one person spoke to the school board.
"We had a request last year toward the end of football season to
check into whether it [prayer] was taking place and, if so was
it allowed?" Paxton said.
Paxton said the district then made the call to move toward a
moment of silence, citing the Supreme Court ruling that prayer
at school is unconstitutional.
"This is a situation that is unfortunately out of our hands. The
U.S. Supreme Court is the supreme law of the land," Paxton said.
Several people in the community plan to stand and pray in unison
during the moment of silence at football games.
The next home football game is Friday, Sept. 1.