Sentence examples for classroom prayer from inspiring English sources

A federal appeals court today struck down a Louisiana law allowing vocal classroom prayer, believed to be the only such law remaining in the nation.

After she had enrolled her son William in a Baltimore public school in 1959, she sued to end the mandatory classroom prayer and Bible reading held there.

Three decades ago, the Supreme Court held that organized classroom prayer in the public schools violates the First Amendment, and today most constitutional scholars believe that school prayer is a dead issue.

A18 School Prayer Law Struck Down A federal appeals court struck down a Louisiana law allowing vocal classroom prayer, believed to be the only such law remaining in the nation.

The case was one of the few in recent years to involve vocal classroom prayer, an issue generally considered settled in 1962 when the Supreme Court barred organized class prayer in the Engel v. Vitale case.

Three decades ago, the Supreme Court held that organized classroom prayer in the public schools violates the First Amendment,… Early in my career as a prosecutor, when I first began selecting juries, a senior colleague warned me about men with beards.

He called for a return of God to the classroom and prayer in the schools.

Off to school next for tea and biscuits in the principal's office before morning prayers, classroom judging and a ringside seat at the all-boys kabaddi final.

After the dinner, Funnye chanted the grace and then reassembled his flock in a large classroom for evening prayers and a Torah lesson.

"There was a time," Birdsall said, "when there was a Ten Commandments in every classroom, there were prayers in public places... the sense is that it's slipping from our hands".

On the right, there are the religious supremacists, who believe government can provide direct aid to religion and can sponsor prayers in the classroom as long as the prayers are nondenominational.