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Washington (CNN)- A dispute over public prayers at town board meetings will be taken up by the Supreme Court in coming months, another contentious case over the intersection of faith and the public arena.
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Officious social engineers of both the right and the left abuse the public schools to promote parochial agendas, whether by sanctioning the recitation of prayers over the school loudspeaker or by the distribution of contraceptives despite parental objections, thereby undermining parental authority and impairing the ability of parents to form their own family values.
We know from their actions of today how Christians think they're being «persecuted» if they can't festoon their religious holiday decorations all over everybody's property and make everybody else recite Christian prayers at all public occasions or stamp their theology on our money and insert it into our pledge of allegiance.
And, historically, the evangelical community has taken several steps back from public schools over the last few decades — particularly since prayer was removed from schools.
At Wednesday's oral arguments, the court's conservative majority appeared to have the votes to allow the public prayers to continue in some form, but both sides expressed concerns about the level of judicial and government oversight over prayers presented by members of a particular faith.
Since what I hear over an amplified PA system (kind of hard to «ignore» 70 db invocations in a mid size room, tbh) are things in the prayer I passionately disagree with, yet barred by prayer protocol to challenge the assertions of the prayperson (which such challenges to ideas are encouraged at public meetings) it sets up a «I'm not going to get anything accomplished unless I pretend I am one of them.»
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The issue is public prayer at her local town board meetings, another contentious case over the intersection of faith and the civic arena.
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My public letter to God on how we should pray on America's National Day of Prayer drew over 4000 comments on Thursday.
Lawmakers in at least six states have jumped into the fray over student - led prayers in public schools.
Indianapolis — A group of educators, meeting here to mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision outlawing organized prayer and Bible readings in public schools, concluded that the debate over religion in public schools has entered a complex stage requiring greater caution and sensitivity than ever by schools.
And Friday - night games at many high schools in the state start with a prayer over the public - address system.
The Republican Party's election gains will make public schools even more of a battlefield over social issues such as student prayer, participants in a forum here last week about church - state separation predicted.
The controversy over prayer in the public schools continues.
School appeals ruling: Cambridge Christian School of Tampa is appealing a court ruling that the state of Florida had the right to deny the school from broadcasting a prayer over the public address system before a 2015 state championship football game.
A May 14, 2018 article by Mallory Simon and Nick Valencia of CNN reported that Webster Parish School District (WPSD) has signed a consent decree agreeing to end its practice of broadcasting morning prayer over the public address system in its schools.