A man shows his support for the Brandon High School band in Mississippi. (Courtesy: Brittany Mann)

A man shows his back up for the Brandon Loftier School ring in Mississippi. (Courtesy: Brittany Mann)

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At that place was no halftime show under the Friday nighttime lights at Mississippi'southward Brandon High School — the marching ring had been benched.

The band was ordered off the field considering the Christian hymn "How Bang-up M Fine art" was a office of their halftime evidence — in violation of a federal courtroom order.

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"The Rankin County School Board and Commune Office are very saddened students will not be able to perform their halftime bear witness they have worked then hard on this summer," the district wrote in a statement to the Blaring Ledger newspaper.

In 2013 a student sued the district over a serial of Christian meetings that had been held on schoolhouse property, the newspaper reported. The district after settled the lawsuit and best-selling they had violated the pupil's First Amendment rights.

In July, U.S. Commune Court Judge Carlton Reeves ruled the commune had violated the understanding after a Christian minister delivered a prayer at an awards ceremony.

Gauge Reeves, who was appointed to the demote by President Obama, came downwards difficult on the school commune — ordering them to pay thousands of dollars in fines. He also warned the district that futurity violations would cost them $10,000.

"Defendants are permanently enjoined from including prayer, religious sermons or activities in any school sponsored event including but not limited to assemblies, graduations, award ceremonies, able-bodied events and any other school event," the lodge reads.

Word virtually the band getting benched spread across the town quicker than kudzu. I must accept received emails and Facebook messages from about the entire state - from Desoto County to Yazoo City.

Something must be done to right this wrong, people said. A message had to be sent to the likes of Judge Reeves. Locals  gathered in coffee shops and garages to devise their plan.

And what they did — would become known as the musical shot heard around the world.

During halftime of Friday nighttime's game - a alone voice began to sing the forbidden song.

"And then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee," the vocalizer sang.

Brittany Mann was in that location and she witnessed the entire moment of disobedience.

"We were just sitting at that place and then one past one people started to stand," she told me. "At kickoff, it started out as a hum but the sound got louder and louder."

She said it was a "truly incredible" moment to watch hundreds of people singing together in the stadium.

"At that moment I was so proud of my town - meeting and taking a stand for something we believe in," she said. "It breaks my heart to see where our country is going — getting farther and farther abroad from the Christian behavior that our country was founded on."

I suspect Miss Brittany wasn't the just one who felt a sense of pride in the Magnolia Country on that warm summer night.

"Nosotros may be pictured as toothless, barefoot, uneducated people around the country, but we are far from it," nearby resident Mandy Miller told me. "I'm from Mississippi and I'g not aback to take a stand."

Oh what a sight it must have been — as hundreds and hundreds of people stood together and with i vocalization — sent a message to Judge Reeves.

"This is the kind of thing that makes me proud to exist from the South," Miss Mandy told me. "We are getting tired of being told to sit downward and shut up. People are set up to fight back."

Miss Mandy is absolutely right. The time has come to stand up to the secularists.

The fourth dimension has come to put an end to their cultural jihad.

I hope the Rankin Canton School Board volition reconsider its decision and allow the marching band to resume performing "How Smashing One thousand Art."

And should Guess Reeves make good on his threat to financially punish the school district, I volition personally pay the $ten,000 fine.