Catholics don’t pray the Lord’s Prayer? Rather than disrupt, the Catholics could quit at the end, then say amen. So it isn’t just the secularists that kicked God out of school.
Don’t miss the point of the dispute. The purpose of the Bible Reading was indoctrination. Suppose that New York had required a short service at the start using the Book of Common Prayer. Think the Baptists would have like that? In Italy, in Germany, and in France there was an assault on the Catholic Church. The Irish Catholics, whose faith had been long suppressed, were now in America and were free to oppose this. So they did.
“Catholics don’t pray the Lord’s Prayer?”
Not the protestant version, no.
“Rather than disrupt, the Catholics could quit at the end, then say amen. So it isn’t just the secularists that kicked God out of school.”
It wasn’t secularists who were forcing the Protestant religion down the throats of non-Protestants.