Title: Governmental Encouragement of Religion in Public Schools: Prayers and Bible Reading - FindLaw
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Content: These exercises are prescribed as part of the curricular activities of students who are required by law to attend school. They are held in the school buildings under the supervision and with the participation of teachers employed in those schools. None of these factors, other than compulsory school attendance, was present in the program upheld in Zorach v. Clausen . Id.
4. 374 U.S. at 223–24. The Court thought the exercises were clearly religious. 5. 374 U.S. at 225. We agree of course that the State may not establish a ‘religion of secularism’ in the sense of affirmatively opposing or showing hostility to religion, thus ‘preferring those who believe in no religion over those who do believe.’ Zorach v. Clauson , 343 U.S. at 314.