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This chapter discusses the Supreme Court’s prayer-in-school cases. The decisions outlawing school prayer have been unpopular, but they are firmly grounded in the history and rationale of disestablishment, particularly the principle against government prescribed religious beliefs and coerced religious exercise. Unfortunately, the Court did not initially moor its school prayer decisions in the anti-coercion principle, leading to decades of confusion about the freedom of students and teachers to engage in private religious exercise at public schools. The Court’s current doctrinal settlement faithfully adapts the disestablishment principle of religious neutrality for a religiously pluralistic society. |
