Fifty years after the Supreme Court banned prayer in public schools, confusion reigns around the issue. One of the easiest ways to rally some conservative Christians is to proclaim that prayer must be restored to public schools. Likewise one of the easiest ways to stir the passions of Christians who believe in the separation of church and state is to suggest that mandatory school prayer ought to be restored.
As someone who lived through the days of the Supreme Court cases in 1962 and 1963 and was directly impacted by the rulings, what stirs my passion is that Christians in general have not discovered a reasonable approach to this whole matter.
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