Wow! I'm still reeling from all that I learned the weekend of September 29th. I'll try to make sense of this as much as I can, but please bear in mind that I haven't quite sorted it all out myself.
The journey started with an invitation from a fellow minister on the cannabis churches google group. I just happened to glance over the post, and the invitation to commune with fellow ministers caught my eye. There was to be a celebration at the future site of an orthodox Ethiopian church in Atlanta, roughly 5-6 hours from our sanctuary here in Lower Alabama.
I felt a strong pull to attend this event. We started out on this journey even without the necessary funds to get home. There's a leap of faith for you! We headed out on our trek on Friday and stayed at a fellow minister's home overnight in Northern Alabama. This was a chance to fellowship and gain further spiritual insight on what our mission may be.
It's amazing to me that the laws in this country are so backwards. 3 officers of the law, including the head of narcotics, spent considerable amounts of time working on our arrest. During that time, they were not out arresting violent offenders, "the real criminals." Where is the sense in this? Your tax dollars are being wasted every day by arresting, trying, and incarcerating non-violent people who just want to be left alone.
Leave me alone!
This is the 9pm story
It is a fact that cannabis leads to spiritual awareness. It helps you feel closer to God! The people in power know this, and they are using prohibition to "keep their subjects in order." Prohibition is anti-God, anti-Jesus, and therefore anti-Christ. Read Revelations again and it will become crystal clear what's REALLY going on here.
This is so not-cool! Has our court system lost their ever-lovin' minds? It's just a song! The kids had already practiced it for a previous performance, and with all the other "stuff" surrounding a graduation ceremony, it's no wonder they wanted to go with something they already knew. So what's the problem?
The Rutherford Institute Bill Haymin
September 27, 2007
SEATTLE, Wash.--A federal district court has dismissed a lawsuit over a school's decision to forbid a student woodwind ensemble's performance of the instrumental piece "Ave Maria" at a high school graduation ceremony. Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute had filed suit against the Everett School District, charging that the school's actions violated student Kathryn Nurre's right to freedom of speech and to be free from hostility to religion.
In dismissing the case, the U.S. District Court in Seattle ruled that although music is considered a form of speech that can be protected, the school district was within its legal rights to control the content of any speech at the graduation ceremony in order "to keep religion out of graduation as a whole." Taking issue with the court's ruling that the school's actions did not violate Nurre's First Amendment rights, Institute attorneys plan to appeal the case.
