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Ben Werner, Student Newspaper Editor
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Public schools generally must allow student prayer groups to meet and worship on campus if other student clubs are permitted.
Private student prayer is permitted in public schools.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso, Tibetan Monk
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Public schools cannot offer a moment of silence for the purpose of prayer.
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John Carthy, Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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Ruled prayers at public school graduations an impermissible establishment of religion.
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Mark Harris, Priest
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Moral values are being neglected and prayer expelled from public schools on the pretext that moral teaching belongs to religion.
Prayer and the Bible were taken out of the public schools and the latent selfishness of the world system was loosed and left to run its course.
Certainly public schools are among the least private places on earth, and Jesus is firmly on the side of the "infidels" when it comes to prayers not belonging in school.
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Bob Greenberg, Congressional Candidate
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Prayer in public schools was challenged, evolution was taught in science classes, and abortion laws were overturned with Roe vs.
Institutionalizing prayers in public schools usurps the rights of parents.
Organized prayer is not permitted in public schools.
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