Your lips say ‘school prayer,’ but your eyes tell me ‘desegregation’

Your lips say ‘school prayer,’ but your eyes tell me ‘desegregation’ January 6, 2013

Part of the problem with arguments about “prayer in schools” is that quite often they don’t seem to really be about prayer in schools.

The anger and resentment over the loss of cultural hegemony the 1962 school prayer decision has come to symbolize seems to trace back earlier than 1962. About eight years earlier, I’d guess.

Which is just to say, more or less, that I suspect something like this:

 

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