It is frightening how school administrators are so stupid on occasion when it comes to Americans’ first amendment rights of free speech and religious expression.

Once again, Christians are persecuted in the United States. A Satanist complained about pupils praying on their own time in the school building. The school administration took to task the praying students.

Students can gather to talk about any other subject than God, seemingly. They can chat with one another about fashion, television, movies and whatever. But when it comes to their faith in God, nix.

Wendy Cloyd, assistant editor, CitizenLink of Focus on the Family reports: "The non-profit legal group Liberty Counsel is asking Heritage High School officials to reverse their suspension of 12 Christian students for meeting in the cafeteria during non-instructional time to pray.

"After a Satanist student approached school administrators to complain about the prayer group, Vice Principal Alex Otoupal told the Christians they could no longer meet.

"Mat Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, said the students might not have been punished if they had met for just about any other reason.

"’These are students who, if they wanted to gather together and talk about American Idol or talk about whatever subject they wanted to and [there would be] no problem,’ Staver said. ‘But in this case they were told not to gather anymore -- ever -- because they wanted to gather together and pray.

"What the school did is clearly and blatantly illegal, he said."

There is a concerted effort to erase the Judeo-Christian heritage from American culture. The secularists are pushing for a European milieu in the United States. It is no-God and that seen through completely. They don’t give up. Therefore, all the more people of faith must continue the fight for right.

"’The First Amendment really is a common-sense instrument when it comes to student speech on public school campuses,’ Staver noted. ‘Any time students are in non-instructional time -- before school, after school, in between class and in the cafeteria -- they can talk about secular topics and they can also talk about religious topics.’

"Bruce Hausknecht, judicial analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said freedom of speech and religion are the most basic of our protected freedoms.

"’I'm always amazed at the level of constitutional illiteracy that exists in many public school administrations,’ he said. ‘Those students did nothing wrong, and either through hostility or misunderstanding, the school trampled their rights.

"’If the people charged with running our public education don't understand the simplest concepts of our Constitution, how on earth can they teach it?’"

Yet school administrators are inviting Muslim speakers into staff meetings to explain Islam. Naturally the explanations are politically correct in making Islam to be what it is not. Muslim sponsors are defending Islam as a religion of peace. School administrators are lapping it up.

These Islamic representatives are sent into school districts to instruct teachers how to create diversity in the classroom, encouraging American pupils to buy into the Islamic "peace" agenda. As if the macabre daily news does not present the totally different profile.

All the while, our own national Judeo-Christian backdrop is blackballed.

"Staver said the school needs to change its position immediately.

"’We've asked the school to revoke the suspension, take it off their record, and allow these students to immediately come back to school,’ he said. ‘Otherwise we'll file suit on their behalf.’"

Staver’s staff surely is being kept busy these days with one case after another involving the slicing through of Americans’ basic rights.