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School Prayer: Yea or Nay?
By
Reed Hall
In recent blogs, I’ve been concerned with clearing up some common misconceptions relating to areas of interface (sometimes involving significant controversy and conflict) between religion and secular American culture. Having previously discussed why teaching creationism in public school science classes, or posting the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, are both inappropriate and unconstitutional, I…
Why the Ten Commandments Do NOT Belong in Public Schools (Part Three)
By
Reed Hall
To attempt to put a more “human face” upon all of this abstract armchair argumentation over the constitutionality and legality (or otherwise) of the government posting or supporting displays of the Ten Commandments in U.S. public schools, let’s wrap things up by just trying to look at the whole issue from a much more personal…
Why the Ten Commandments Do NOT Belong in Public Schools (Part Two)
By
Reed Hall
In my previous blog entry, I underscored the fact that since U.S. public schools are secular state institutions, they therefore cannot endorse or promote religion in general, or any specific religions or religious doctrines in particular. And this means that it is flatly unconstitutional for the Ten Commandments to be posted (and thereby promoted) by…
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