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Practicing Religion
Prayer had been a fixture in many schools. When it was challenged in 1962 and 1963, the Supreme Court ruled that prayer directed by public schools violated the First Amendment's Establishment Clause. This church supported an unsuccessful amendment to overturn the Court's decisions: "if this nation is to survive as a bulwark of freedom, it must do so under God."
Letter from the Central Christian Church of Fort Lauderdale in favor of a school prayer constitutional amendment, June 11, 1964 |