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Prayer in Public School
What is the law about prayers in public schools?
THE CASE AGAINST SCHOOL PRAYER
Keep the Church and State Forever Separate
Should Students Pray in Public Schools?
Why Should Schools Be Neutral?
What Happens When Worship Enters Public Schools?
Can't Students Pray in Public Schools Now?
What's Wrong With A "Voluntary" Prayer Amendment?
What Would the Prayer Amendment Permit?
Haven't Public Schools Always Had Prayer?
How Can Prayer Be Harmful?
Should Government Become "Prayer Police"?
Can't Moral Decline Be Traced to the Prayer Decisions?
What About the Rights of the Majority?
What's Wrong with a Moment of Silence?
Should Commencements Start with Prayers?
What About a Student Vote to Have Prayer?
Keep the State and Church Forever Separate
Even Jesus Was Against School Prayer
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
Supreme Court Cases Opposing Religious Worship in Schools

Content: To introduce religion in our public schools builds walls between children who may not have been aware of religious differences before. Why Should Schools Be Neutral? Our public schools are for all children, whether Catholic, Baptist, Quaker, atheist, Buddhist, Jewish, agnostic. The schools are supported by all taxpayers, and therefore should be free of religious observances and coercion. It is the sacred duty of parents and churches to instill religious beliefs, free from government dictation. Institutionalizing prayers in public schools usurps the rights of parents. School prayer proponents mistake government neutrality toward religion as hostility. The record shows that religious beliefs have flourished in this country not in spite of but because of the constitutional separation of church and state. What Happens When Worship Enters Public Schools? When religion has invaded our public school system, it has singled out the lone Jewish student, the class Unitarian or agnostic, the children in the minority.