As much as we might fight
against prayers in public schools, churches on city property and political leaders who have the nerve to declare that this is a Christian country, we must accept the fact that we are a minority.
In the early 1960s, Madalyn O'Hair, an atheist communist filed a lawsuit
against prayer in public schools that made it's way all the way to the Supreme Court of the U.S..
Not exact matches
Also, they argued
against any
prayer or Bible - reading
in the
public schools unless it was according to their beliefs.
In the
public schools, even the reciting of the Lord's
Prayer or the Bible involves taking sides for or
against the supersessionary claims.
President - Elect Donald Trump's pro-life platform
against abortion, along with his support for traditional family values, marriage as stated
in the Bible as one man and one woman instead of same - sex marriage,
in favor of
prayer and the reading of sacred scripture
in our
public schools, and his promise to appoint conservative judges to the United States Supreme Court made Evangelicals and even Democrats who espouse those positions to support Donald Trump.