Complaints have been made against chaplains for mandatory prayers, coercion, and using government money to promote Evangelical Christianity.
School prayer in its common usage refers to state-sanctioned and/or mandatory prayer by students in public schools.
Both Schempp and Murray challenged mandatory prayer in public schools.
He later supported the removal of mandatory prayer from schools.
Thirty years ago today, the Supreme Court held that mandatory prayer in the public schools was unconstitutional.
Mr. Bush has already indicated that if elected he would have trouble achieving social goals like mandatory prayers in schools.
Ultimately this was successful: Karman abandoned his mandatory prayers and began to espouse the Party's politics.
For instance, the Arkansas Education Association, a teachers group opposed to mandatory prayer, was satisfied.
Not so long ago these universities had mandatory Christian prayer and a quota on admissions of Jews.
There has never been a Senate vote on mandatory prayer, and Vice President Bush certainly does not support it.