02 May 2003

Prayer no longer criminal act in schools

New regulations from the Bush Administration on school prayer [source, source]
Public schools may not restrict or censor [students'] prayers on the ground that they might be deemed `too religious' to others. The Establishment Clause prohibits state officials from making judgments about what constitutes an appropriate prayer, and from favoring or disfavoring certain types of prayers -- be they `nonsectarian' and `nonproselytizing' or the opposite -- over others." [...]
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