Don’t even tell me you are surprised.

Unbelievable… Seniors Not Allowed to Pray Before Meals at Nursing Home

Senior citizens are no longer allowed to pray before meals at the Port Wentworth’s Ed Young Senior Citizens Center near Savannah, Georgia. Local officials say the meals are now provided with federal money and therefore the seniors are not allowed to pray before meals.
WSBTV reported:

Preston Blackwelder proudly showed off a painting of his grandmother that had hung next to the front door of his Port Wentworth home.

She was the woman who led him to God, Blackwelder said Friday.

And with that firm religious footing, Blackwelder said it would be preposterous to stop praying before meals at Port Wentworth’s Ed Young Senior Citizens Center near Savannah because of a federal guideline.

“She would say pray anyway,” Blackwelder said of his grandmother. “She’d say don’t listen.”

But Senior Citizens Inc. officials said Friday the meals they are contracted by the city to provide to Ed Young visitors are mostly covered with federal money, which ushers in the burden of separating church and state.

On Thursday, the usual open prayer before meals at the center was traded in for a moment of silence.

Yes, yes. Of course. This is not what the Constitution says. Yes, yes, of course the phrase “separation of Church and State” so not even appear in the Constitution. This is not the question. The question is why you still believe the Constitution matters?

This is about state imposed secularism. Constitution be damned.

Freedom of religion ends at the front door of your home or Church. And even that may not last long.