Whoa. Sanity in New York City?
Politico: At an interfaith breakfast Tuesday, Mayor Eric Adams seemed to regret the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that banned school-sponsored prayer in 1962.
“When we took prayers out of schools, guns came into schools,” Adams said to applause from hundreds of religious leaders gathered at an annual event in Manhattan.
Adams was discussing the role that people who attend synagogues, churches, Sikh temples and mosques could play in reducing societal ills from homelessness to domestic violence.
“Don’t tell me about no separation of church and state. State is the body, church is the heart. You take the heart out of the body, the body dies,” Adams said.
Leftists, of course, freaked out. I mean completely freaked.
Rachel Laser, president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a District-based group, said the organization was “dismayed” by Mr. Adams’ remarks.
She also called the mayor’s comments “shocking” and “dangerous.”
The New York Times called it “surreal” and quoted Rabbi Abby Stein saying that she and several people sharing her table had the same, immediate reaction upon hearing the mayor’s remarks on that topic: “No, no, no, no.”
Rabbi Stein said it was “unhinged and dangerous”
Surreal. Unhinged. Dangerous.
All he said was that children should have the right to pray in schools. It’s pretty telling that this scares them so much.
