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From: mpr@mb2c.UUCP (Mark Reina)
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Subject: Re: Copyright Violations - how can software people do this
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Date: Wed, 28-Mar-84 07:58:46 EST
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Recently I saw on the net comments regarding the first amendment as it
applied to school prayer.  The writer correctly paraphrased the amendment
in that it prohibits the "establishment" of religion.  The writer did not
see how this could prohibit school prayer.  To understand, you would have
to read a long line of Supreme Court opinions, as to what constitutes an
"establishment" of religion.  The court has enunciated that when the state
acts affirmatively to favor or support any religious practices, that the
state then works to "establish" a religious practice.  In the past, the
Court has felt state support of school prayer of meditation is an "establishment"
of a religious practice.  Therefore, such support of school prayer is 
unquestionably unconstitutional.