Separation Of Church And State

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to direct prayer in schools.
The reason that this is a violation is because prayer, bible readings and
moments of silence are prohibited in public school systems.
The First Amendment has many different interpretations that people are
attaching to it. People took this amendment to mean that the government was not
intended to be banned from assisting religion or was intended to be erased from
public or government officials.
The Supreme Court case off 1962, Engel versus Vitale, was a case about
whether prayer should or should not be allowed in public schools. The argument
is drawn from the First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment. The Board of
Directors of the school district of New Hyde, New York held firm to the prayer
they wanted to say at the beginning of school which follows: “Almighty God, we
acknowledge our dependence upon thee, and we beg thy blessing upon us, our
parents, our teachers and our country(370 U.S. Sec. 421).”
This brief prayer is known as ...

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a captive audience. “Church and religion shall live both and upon
that freedom. There cannot be freedom of religion, safeguard by the state, and
intervention by the church or its agencies in the state's domain or dependency
on its largesse(370 U.S. sec. 421).”
Mr. Justice Stewart overturned the ruling of the previous court which let
the public schools in New York continue to say this brief prayer. He thought
the district courts had made a wrong decision. The court is stating that a
teacher cannot promote the saying of a prayer, but anyone wanting to pray in a
public school has a right to do so. The government today cannot force a group
of Americans to take part in any subject ...

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