ice calls attention to the fact that you worship differently from everyone else and that you don't follow the crowd. In any case all of these problems could have been fixed without making this into a war. We could have said all right each day we will start by taking a moment of reflection. There case solved. That is not saying nothing about prayer and the child could do what ever needed to be done mentally before the school day started. But no that did not happen. Instead we turned it into a huge war and said that it would just be better if we didn't have to deal with it and for get about it. However, our founding fathers built this great country based on religion. That is no secret. Maybe if people would research they would know that and know that everything we still do today that has to deal with this nation is religion based.
             The next topic could very well be argued but I would like to cover what we have all herd about the separation of church and state and why it effects prayer in school. I truly believe that this is a good question. When our founding fathers wrote the Amendment is what they meant what the Supreme Courts took it as today? The phrase "separation of church and state" is not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, because its drafters did not see a division between the two parts in their religious beliefs and the document that constructed their Republic. The phrase "separation of church and state" came primarily from two sources, a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to a group of ministers and from the U.S. Supreme Court case, Everson v. Board of Education.
             The Danbury Letter-Thomas Jefferson wrote the famous phrase "separation of church and state" in a letter to the Committee of the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut. He was responding to the letter they had written, part of which said:
             "Our Sentiments are uniformly on the side of Religious Liberty-That Religion is at all times and places a Matter...