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This 3 page paper takes the position that prayer should not be mandated in public schools. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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view that it is inappropriate and unnecessary for prayer to be mandated in public schools. Discussion Generations of school children have said the Pledge of Allegiance, but many people might
not know that it wasnt until 1954 that the words "under God" were added to this declaration (Gaylor). At the time, the nation was watching as Senator Joseph McCarthy went
on his ill-advised and ultimately disastrous "witch hunt" for the Communists he insisted had "infiltrated" the government; changing the pledge was thus "partly motivated by a desire to differentiate between
communism, which promotes Atheism, and Western capitalistic democracies, which were at least nominally Christian" (Robinson). As with other such constructions, like "Muslim terrorists," the words "Atheistic Communists" were repeated "so
many times that the public has linked Atheism with communism; the two are often considered synonymous. Many consider Atheism as unpatriotic and un-American as is communism" (Robinson). This simplistic mind
set must have the Founding Fathers spinning in their graves; they saw the danger of a theocracy and created a government specifically devoid of religion, and gave it a mechanism
to keep religious motives out of public life: the "wall of separation" between church and state. Forcing children to pray in school knocks a hole in that wall. The purpose
of public schools is to "educate, not to proselytize" (Gaylor). Advocates of prayers in public schools say that such prayers are "voluntary," but Gaylor asks what "5, 8, or 10-year-old
could view prayers recited as part of class routine as voluntary?" They would be embarrassed, teased and possibly persecuted as being "different" if they didnt go along with the prayer
everyone else was saying. But religious observance is private while the schools are public, and "it is appropriate that the two should not mix. To introduce religion in our public
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