Engel V. Vitale Supreme Court Case
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- "Moral and Spiritual Training" in schools.
- This isn't right, I won't have my child doing this!
- This goes against my religious beliefs and practice!
- Our students will have the option in the mornings to recite prayer.
- Doing the prayer in schools violates the First Amendment's Establishment Clause!
- "There was a sufficient separation of church and state so that the First Amendment was not infringed."
- Our prayer is protected by the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment because the prayer does not encourage a specific religion, and is voluntary,
- The prayer was a voluntary act and the students had the choice to not say it.
- I may agree with this opinion, but I will still follow with the majority vote.
- We are not participating in this case.
- I am joined with Chief Justice Warren and Justices Douglas, Clark, Harlan, and Brennan and we conclude that the religious activity was composed of “government officials” (the school administrators) and used as a part of a government program (school instruction) to advance religious beliefs.
- In saying this, any type of public promotion of religion, including giving financial aid to religious schools, violates the Establishment Clause.
- It was a 6-1 ruling in favor for the arguing parents!
- As the Supreme Court we rule that the prayer is Unconstitutional due to infringement on the First Amendment's Establishment Clause!
- The government has no business drafting formal prayers for any segment of its population to repeat in a government-sponsored religious programs.
- The Court has decided that the "Moral and Spiritual Training" in our New York Schools is to be disbanded.
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