The good folks over at Liberty Counsel are rushing to the defense of teachers and students in Santa Rosa County, Fla., in the midst of an ongoing flap about prayer in public schools. Quick recap: The ACLU and school officials have been at odds over the appropriateness of prayer in school settings. Three school employees were cleared last year of charges that they broke an agreement not to pray at student events. Now the fight has spilled over into the Florida legislature.

Liberty Counsel is now filing suit on behalf of prayer-minded school employees. From the press release:

Students can no longer say “God Bless,” teachers must hide in closets to pray, parents cannot communicate frankly with teachers, volunteers cannot answer any questions regarding religion, Christian groups cannot rent school facilities for private religious functions benefiting students, and pastors are dictated how they can and cannot seat their audiences at private, religious baccalaureate services held inside their own houses of worship.

Wait a minute. “Teachers must hide in closets to pray.” But isn’t that exactly what Jesus told his followers to do?

“And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.”

Someone better get Jesus a lawyer.