From Raw Story:
A school board in Kansas voted this week to allow student-led prayer at all activities, and even went as far as offering the schools’ public address systems for religious use.
According to the Leader and Times,
school prayer had not been on the agenda for Monday’s meeting of USD
No. 480 board in Liberal, but board member Nick Hatcher brought it up at
the last minute.
Liberal High School had banned prayer before football games several years ago over concerns that allowing to students to pray over the intercom system could be construed as the school sponsoring a particular religion, which was banned by the Supreme Court in 1962.
In its 2000 Santa Fe Independent School Dist. v. Doe decision, the Supreme Court specifically ruled
that allowing students to use the public address system to pray at
football games violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
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