Columbus Dispatch: Gee: Meyer Not Offering Bible Study

From the Dispatch:

Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer won’t offer Bible study or chapel services to his players, according to a letter the university’s president sent this week to a group that works to support the separation of church and state.

Meyer told The Dispatch in January that he would hold the study groups and services, but President E. Gordon Gee is telling the Freedom From Religion Foundation, based in Madison, Wis., that that was wrong.

“I certainly agree that publicly funded institutions cannot support, promote or endorse religion. I want to be clear that coach Meyer does not conduct Bible studies or chapel services for the players,” Gee wrote in the letter dated Tuesday.

This is both sad and infuriating, and it speaks of Gordon Gee’s character as well, and for my money, not in a good way.

Would to God that we might be freed from folks like Freedom From Religion (an oxymoron to begin with) who constantly try to impose their values on the rest of us. These same folks who accuse those of us who have faith with trying to force our beliefs on others–something that rarely happens these days anymore–are more than happy to do the same thing to others, and all in the name of “freedom” and “tolerance.” Right.

Folks have the right to act foolishly and if they really do want to live in denial and try to be free of (or from) religion and a relationship with their only Source of life, that is their choice. It is heartbreaking to consider, but it is their right as human beings to reject having a relationship with their Creator. But they have no right to try to foist their poison on those of us who do not want freedom from religion, who in fact see faith in Christ as the only real path to freedom. If Urban Meyer really did want to offer opportunities for prayer and Bible study to his players, God bless him. Don’t give up the fight.

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