A leftwing school board member in North Carolina exploded in rage when a fellow member made a motion to start meetings with an invocation.

This from toddstarnes.com.

Pam Escobar, a member of the Cabarrus County School Board responded:

How much prayer do you need? How much God do you need?

Melanie Freeman, a newcomer to the school board, stated it is important to start meetings by seeking God’s wisdom. She ran for office by declaring her faith in God and she was determined to reinstate the pre-meeting prayer.

She said:

I knew there would be resistance, because any time you put back something that somebody has taken out, the struggle is much harder.

Escobar blasted the Republicans on the school board for daring to bring up the Almighty.

She said, referring to school board members:

They didn’t come here to pray with you.

If you want to pray with them, take them to church.

You want to be evangelical and do that? Go for it. But not on my time, not on their time, and not on this community’s time.

We’re not in this business. This is not the time or the place. I don’t know why you need prayer to take this job seriously.

Escobar, a former television news anchor, seethed with rage and yelled, “no” when the final vote was held. The motion passed overwhelmingly.

Freeman said she has absolutely no regrets about asking for prayer to be reinstated.

She said:

I am not a young chicken and so I don’t have a lot of time to mess around and to be quite honest, our children have been waiting a long time for somebody to get in here and care about where the trends in our education are going.

Final thought: Escobar’s attitude toward prayer and her demeanor concerning religion are not what I remember about North Carolina. Cabarrus County seems to be in dire need of change on their school board. Good on Melanie Freeman for choosing to shake things up. God speed to her.