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o the left, the separation of “church and state” means the separation of God from government, a hostility to the very theism from which the country came. It speaks volumes about the left’s conception of America that it considers a pious football coach a greater threat to students than transgender propagandists — the twisted view on display throughout the Kennedy v. Bremerton School District case. The secularists lost that case last week after the majority on the Supreme Court ruled that a public high school in Washington violated the First Amendment rights of Joseph Kennedy, a football coach whom the school fired for praying with players after games. Separating God from government is alien to American history. “The Constitution and the best of our traditions counsel mutual respect and tolerance, not censorship and suppression, for religious and nonreligious views alike,” wrote Justice Neil Gorsuch for the majority. The secularists are in no mood for mutual tolerance. They seek dominance and demand that the American government, contrary to its founding traditions, treat prayer in public schools as a corrupting influence on students. Given all the rot in public schools these days, that view should strike most Americans as unhinged.
It bears repeating that the constitutionality of prayer in public schools wasn’t challenged until the 1960s. Until then, judges took it for granted that students and teachers could pray together. The Supreme Court’s ban on school prayer in Engel v. Vitale was as bogus as its later ban on states prohibiting abortion. The Supreme Court’s insistence on a government “neutral” about God represented judicial activism at its worst, which Justice Potter Stewart noted in his dissent in that case. “With all respect, I think the Court has misapplied a great constitutional principle,” he wrote. “I cannot see how an ‘official religion’ is […]
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