From christianpost.com
On Monday, the DeSoto County School District in Hernando, Miss., said that it would enforce a policy prohibiting use of the public address system to broadcast prayers before football games. That followed a similar pronouncement by the Bell County School District in Pineville, Ky.
The decisions by the two school districts to abandon local high school traditions that date back as far as a half-century were prompted by legal threats from the foundation, which describes itself as the nation’s largest association of “freethinkers,” including atheists, agnostics and skeptics…
The foundation’s crusade against prayer before high school football games finds legal support from an 11-year-old Supreme Court decision in a Texas case. By a 6-3 majority, the justices declared that under no circumstance may public schools allow prayer on any occasion, including the start of football games.
Most Americans, meanwhile, support prayer. Nearly two-thirds of Americans said they favor prayer in schools, according to a Rasmussen poll earlier this year. Only 24 percent of surveyed adults said they opposed it.
[It’s time for a new challenge! Do we need cheerleaders or God as idols? – JS]
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