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Prayer In Public Schools

In 1782, the United States Congress passed the following resolution: “The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.” (#) However, school prayer and scripture readings, are a thing of the past in our public schools today. Through a number of court cases, over several decades, the meaning of the First Amendment has slowly been changed, and as a result, school prayer has been removed from the United States public education system.
In 1962, The New York public school system endorsed a school prayer that was said before the start of classes every day. The prayer was bland and denominational. Justice Hugo Black ruled that the Regent’s prayer was inconsistent with the purposes of the Establishment Clause in the court case of Engel v. Vitale, 1962. The ruling did not completely stop school-prayer. Voluntary prayer was still allowed, but the regent style prayer was prohibited.
The Murray v. Curlett, 1963, case made its way to......


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