No Place for Jesus at NASA

No place for 'Jesus' at NASA [Excerpts]

The NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston has a JSC Praise & Worship Club. Last June, club officials notified its members about their monthly meeting in an email that included the phrase "Jesus is our life!" Liberty Institute attorney Jeremy Dys tells OneNewsNow the email evidently got the attention of more than just the club members.

"A few days later club organizers received a call from the lawyers at NASA saying that the use of the name Jesus was wrong, [that] they couldn't say 'Jesus' in their emails anymore," he explains. "They said that the name Jesus was too 'sectarian' or 'denominational,' or that they couldn't use that and make other people feel badly or something like that." The attorney says censorship of religious speech isn't something NASA or any other government agency ought to be doing.

"Instead it ought to be respecting and maintaining the rich heritage that NASA has in respecting the religious speech of its employees. They've done it for astronauts like Jim Lovell and Bill Anders and Frank Borman when they read from the creation account on Apollo 8. Why won't they do it for the praise and worship club at Johnson Space Center?"

Yesterday, Liberty Institute delivered a demand letter to Johnson Space Center asking them to correct the problem and protect free speech – and informing them that if they choose not to, the matter will be taken to court. The legal group has asked NASA to respond no later than March 10.

(Charlie Butts, “No place for 'Jesus' at NASA,” OneNews Now.com, 2/9/16).