As I read the First Amendment, no where does it prohibit prayer in school...just call me crazy.
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Your Humble & Obdt. Svt.,
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Remember that Washington himself was a British soldier early on.
“The Constitution, after all, prohibits Congress from making any law either respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
Prohibiting the free exercise thereof...If I want to open a meeting with a prayer, then I have the right to do so under the constitution.
The 1st Amendment to the Constitution contains the answer.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The Congress of the Federal government shall make no law! It does not say, State governments, County governments, or Local governments; it says Congress, only Congress.
The Constitution does not grant Congress the power to legislate religion therefore prayers at a local town meetings are not the business of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court can only rule on issues that the Congress is empowered to legislate.
What happens when a whole bunch of people show up to do it? Draw straws?
“letting citizens voluntarily offer a prayer.”
Fine thing when this exact situation becomes a point of contention.
I won’t comment on my pathetic commie-atheist-envirnut cousin who cheers on every effort to make war on every little reference to God in “the public arena”.