We Still Pray Responds

From the Asheville-Citizen Times  - Dueling billboards in Asheville debate religion's role in government
From staff reports • July 5, 2010 — This Independence Day weekend in Asheville, there's a seven-word debate brewing about religion's role in government, and area commuters have a front row seat to the controversy.

That's because it's being played out on dueling Asheville billboards.
The Rev. Ralph Sexton, pastor at Trinity Baptist Church in Asheville, and the We Still Pray movement funded four digital billboards that debuted Friday in Asheville — including one on Hendersonville Road — with the message “One nation, under God.”   More...

From Greenville's Eyewitness News 9 - Battling Pledge of Allegiance billboards in NC

From Raleigh's WRAL - N.C. billboards debate Pledge of Allegiance

"The Myth of Separation" - Dr. Ralph Sexton, Jr.- On June 22, 2000, the Asheville Citizen-Times carried the editorial: “Court’s ruling affirms religious freedom.”

The Supreme Court’s ruling that forbids student-led prayer at public schools does not affirm our nation’s deep commitment to allowing the practice of religion without government interference. It is just the opposite. Our “founding fathers,” men and women of intense faith and great wisdom, made sure that we could pray in public. The Supreme Court has reversed what our constitutional architects had designed. It takes only a few minutes of research to destroy the “myth of separation” presented in so many articles and debates.  Click here to read the entire editorial.


We Still Pray Revisited
In August of 2000, “We Still Pray” was born in an effort to retain our religious liberties.

After the court’s ruling concerning  “student- led prayer,” the community stood together to pray before area sports events.  The community’s symbol of “student- led prayer” had been taken away, but the heart of the people was still to pray.  More...