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Argumentative Essay: Should Prayer Be Back In School?

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Should prayer be back in school? The Bible states that we should ¨pray without ceasing (17) In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you¨. (18) First Thessalonians 5 17-18 (KJV) It's not that hard to figure out that God wants us to prayer everyday, and thank him for all that he has done for us, but what really gets me is that this nation is founded on God. Even back in the old days everybody prayed no matter where they was at, and that includes schools.Many people think that a woman by the name Madalyn Murray O'Hair was the whole reason that prayer was taken out of schools. But that is not the case. It was the State Board of Regents who said that it was to be taken out of all schools. In my appinen …show more content…

The program included a prayer every morning before school, which the Regents themselves had composed in a nondenominational form. The prayer stated; Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our Country. A group of 10 parents were joined by the ACLU because they was against the Board of Education of New Hyde Park, New York because they had adopted that prayer. Many people where for the prayer, but there where a lot of people was not. With a lot of people not like the prayer argament were made on April 3, 1962 to take it to court. On June 25, 1962, the Supreme Court ruled 7 to 1 that it was unconstitutional for a government agency to make students recite prayers. Which for me I think we need to pray every monringin. Im not say recite a prayer, but I think it would be nice to have a momnet of slicent every mouring before we start the school …show more content…

A lot of people think that she was the one that was behind taking pray out of school. There was a lot of different case that was a part of takeing prayer of school. Such has Engel v. Vitale case. Murray v. Curlett, along with Abington v. Schempp. O´Hair was just a small part of it. On June 17, 1963, expanding an earlier school prayer eliminated not only obligatory school prayer but also mandatory Bible readings in public schools. The one case that really got the ball rolling on the separation of church and state was Engel v. Vitale. To be honest I really don't like that people think that was have to have separation of church and state; because God doesn't put us on hold, and tells us that the only why that we can only talk to him is a church. If he doesn't do it to us then why should we do it to

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