Prayer in Schools Inside America Court cases, laws, and even violations to the First Amendment, these are all problems of the same topic, prayer in schools.Many articles that have been created over school prayer and people want to know if they really do have to have the right to pray in schools, or if it is limited in this so called “public” area. According to many authors, they talk about the fact that not being able to pray in school limits the people’s religious freedom that is given to them by the First Amendment. School prayer is a continuous subject that has gone through many court cases, and is no longer allowed to be sponsored by the government,also it is in the school everyday within the Pledge of Allegiance. Prayer in schools started
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However many people have just started riots and strikes and against schools and any government building just to try and get their point across (Baughman). According to this article, people have failed in bringing back schools prayer since it violates the First Amendment, freedom of religion. This article supports the fact that people have tried to and gain the right of being able to express themselves in school. It also states that many of the court cases that have gone through have failed, because of the exact same reason, therefore making it useless to fight for it since it will not change the Supreme Court’s …show more content…
This article makes sense because in the Pledge of Allegiance there is the saying “One Nation Under God” which makes many people angry into thinking that they have to change their religion in order to be accepted in this country. According to my research on this article, the wording that is used in the pledge makes it legal and illegal at the same time, because it goes against the First Amendment (Wilson). This article supports my point, because it talks about how school prayer is still existing in a way, but is definitely not enforced by any extent. The government states that the pledge is not trying to force a religion on anybody and is not forced to be said in schools. Of course since it is not required to say the Pledge of Allegiance in schools many teachers try and provoke the students into
However many people have just started riots and strikes and against schools and any government building just to try and get their point across (Baughman). According to this article, people have failed in bringing back schools prayer since it violates the First Amendment, freedom of religion. This article supports the fact that people have tried to and gain the right of being able to express themselves in school. It also states that many of the court cases that have gone through have failed, because of the exact same reason, therefore making it useless to fight for it since it will not change the Supreme Court’s …show more content…
This article makes sense because in the Pledge of Allegiance there is the saying “One Nation Under God” which makes many people angry into thinking that they have to change their religion in order to be accepted in this country. According to my research on this article, the wording that is used in the pledge makes it legal and illegal at the same time, because it goes against the First Amendment (Wilson). This article supports my point, because it talks about how school prayer is still existing in a way, but is definitely not enforced by any extent. The government states that the pledge is not trying to force a religion on anybody and is not forced to be said in schools. Of course since it is not required to say the Pledge of Allegiance in schools many teachers try and provoke the students into