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"A mother has been told she can no longer pray on the grounds of Concord High School.Click here to view News 9\u2019s reportDuring the school year, Lizarda Urena, the mother of two students, prayed out loud on the steps of the school as students walked in.Urena said she had a calling in 2011 to fight school violence with prayer, so she started praying on the steps of the auditorium between 7 and 7:15 a.m. as students filtered in.\u201CI stand up, lift my hands to praise the Lord with my Bible holding and sometimes kneeling,\u201D she said.Urena was told she had to move off school property when the school was contacted by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which is dedicated to the separation of church and state.\u201CWe decided to write a letter to the school district saying it was inappropriate and unconstitutional for her to be on the grounds praying toward students,\u201D said Rebecca Markert, attorney with the Freedom From Religion Foundation. \u201CPublic school grounds are different than her just going to the stairs of the city hall or into a public park. Public school property isn\u2019t open for everybody to have rallies and demonstrate and things like that.\u201DFormer state Rep. David Bates disagrees and said legal action will be taken.\u201CThe school simply has no legitimate reason to suppress her rights to express her faith on public property,\u201D Bates said.Urena vowed to keep praying for the school but off school grounds.\u201CI didn\u2019t harm anybody and I care as much about everybody\u2019s children as I care about my children,\u201D she said.Urena\u2019s supporters said they might show up at the high school when school starts again and try to pray on school property."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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