Sentence examples for student prayer from inspiring English sources

This space is open during the day and evening for student prayer and meditation.

Having voluntary student prayer groups use school property to meet should not be a threat, any more than its use by the High School Republicans should threaten Democrats".

Some residents and parents said that she also advised a student prayer group, and that, until now, she had not been involved in any controversies.

Although this case involves student prayer at a different type of school function, our analysis is properly guided by the principles that we endorsed in Lee.

Therefore, the simple enactment of this policy, with the purpose and perception of school endorsement of student prayer, was a constitutional violation.

Michael Carneal, a high school freshman in Paducah, Ky., told schoolmates that "it would be cool" to shoot into a student prayer group.

And yet in 1990 the court ruled that public schools must allow student prayer-groups to meet if other student clubs were allowed.

In those instances, student prayers might well be considered private speech, protected by the First Amendment principles of free speech and free exercise of religion.

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the public school district in East Brunswick, N.J., was not violating the constitutional rights of a football coach when it prohibited staff members from participating in student prayers.

The March 29 argument in the case, Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe, No. 99-62, is likely to focus on whether the students' prayer is truly private speech, and therefore presumably constitutional, as the district and state maintain, or whether the circumstances of the student's selection and performance make the event a form of public worship that the Supreme Court's precedents forbid.

The party's Wuppertal branch praised the high school's policy on Muslim students' prayer, according to Al Jazeera, calling it an "interesting and "sensible" measure.