"make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"
The First Amendment's Establishment Clause prohibits the government from making any law “respecting an establishment of religion.”
Free Exercise Clause: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...
"The Free Exercise Clause implies special accommodation of religious ideas and actions, even to the point of exemptions to generally applicable laws. Such a special benefit seems to violate the neutrality between “religion and non-religion” mandated by the Establishment Clause."
The government, or school, may not impose prayer or other religious acts. Students are not the government, they can openly pray and share their religion.
6 Court cases regarding prayer in school: http://www.newsmax.com/FastFeatures/prayer-in-school-supreme-court-cases/2014/10/28/id/602801/
"When Milford denied the Good News Club access to the school's limited public forum on the ground that the club was religious in nature, it discriminated against the club because of its religious viewpoint in violation of the free-speech clause of the First Amendment," Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the majority
The case is The Good News Club v. Milford Central Schools
Credits:
- http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92875&page=1
- http://billofrightsinstitute.org/founding-documents/primary-source-documents/danburybaptists/
- http://www.centerforpubliceducation.org/Main-Menu/Public-education/The-law-and-its-influence-on-public-school-districts-An-overview/Religion-and-Public-Schools.html
- http://forwardprogressives.com/our-pledge-of-allegiance-and-the-myth-of-one-nation-under-god/
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/establishment_clause
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/free_exercise_clause
- http://www.newsmax.com/FastFeatures/prayer-in-school-supreme-court-cases/2014/10/28/id/602801/
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