{"id":53039,"date":"2022-09-23T21:45:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T21:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53039"},"modified":"2022-09-23T21:45:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T21:45:44","slug":"prayer-in-school-save-it-for-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53039","title":{"rendered":"Prayer in school? Save it for church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/prayer-pic-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14417\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/prayer-pic-11-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/prayer-pic-11-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/prayer-pic-11.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You hear the refrain all the time, that society went to hell when the U.S. Supreme Court took prayer away from teachers and students in our public schools.<\/p>\n<p>To which I say: <em>nonsense!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For starters, I do not believe society has gone to hell. For critics of modern life, though, to assign blame for such an idiotic notion to a single court decision simply fails to look through a wide enough lens.<\/p>\n<p>The SCOTUS ruled in the early 1960s that reciting prayers in public schools violated the First Amendment clause that prohibits the establishment of a &#8220;state religion.&#8221; Let&#8217;s be candid and clear about something: The prayers we all talk about are Christian prayers, which always end with a phrase that references &#8220;Jesus&#8217;s name.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve tried to note, the Constitution doesn&#8217;t allow for Christian prayers, or Jewish prayers, or Muslim prayers in public schools. If we accept that public schools are products of local government &#8212; and I most certainly do &#8212; then public school systems are not exempt from the constitutional prohibitions laid out.<\/p>\n<p>I also understand the &#8220;religious freedom&#8221; and &#8220;religious liberty&#8221; arguments that come from those who want to restore prayer in public schools. I happen to view those terms in broad terms. &#8220;Religious freedom and liberty&#8221; can be interpreted to mean that one is &#8220;free <em>from<\/em> religion&#8221; and is <em>&#8220;liberated&#8221;<\/em> from it, too.<\/p>\n<p>Invariably I fall back on the notion to which I have subscribed my entire adult life. I am all for religion. I am a practicing Christian. I just want to save my prayer time for my own private moments &#8230; and for Sunday, when I&#8217;m sitting in church.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep religion in houses of worship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14,15],"tags":[1738,10013,5043],"class_list":["post-53039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-political-news","category-religious-news","tag-first-amendment","tag-prayer-in-school","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53040,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53039\/revisions\/53040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}