A mom who took to a Ventura County, California city council meeting last month to blast her public school system “socially transitioning” her underage daughter without her consent was forcibly shut down by the mayor for attempting to use her minute-long comment window to publicly pray.
“We don’t do prayer,” the board member told Terrence Swain, repeatedly talking over the praying mother of six until she finally stopped.
Swain had come to the public meeting to call out Ventura County Public Schools for allegedly helping her daughter “socially transition” to another gender identity at school without her mother’s knowledge or consent. But instead of putting the school on blast, Wayne said she’d come to “offer nothing but prayer.”
“I want to lift up my father in Heaven,” she said, before beginning to pray “in Jesus name.”
“Father, I pray that you would tear down the strongholds in this place. I pray that you would raise up the men in this society,” she began, as the crowd began to boo and Mayor Jeannette Sanchez-Palacios began repeatedly telling her to stop talking.
After finally forcing Swain to stop praying by hollering at her, Sanchez-Palacios told her, “We don’t do prayer” before telling her, “Finish your comments please, you have 28 seconds.”
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Swain then concluded, “And I pray all this in the name of Jesus, and the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit…Jesus is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, and I pray that all the high places here will be torn down in the name of Christ….every knee here will bow," as Sanchez-Palacios kept banging her gavel and demanding she shut up and leave.
It’s an insane day in America when tax-funded public school administrators can tell girls they can become boys without even informing their parents, but praying to God is considered so “offensive,” it can’t be spoken in public - even when doing so is clearly covered under the First Amendment.