During a Monday Religious Liberty Commission meeting at the Bible Museum, President Trump announced that the White House will be taking efforts to protect prayer in public schools.
“I am pleased to announce this morning that the Department of Education will soon issue new guidance protecting the right to prayer in our public schools, and it’s total protection,” Trump said.
Addressing his own views on religion and what he deems to be the effect of religion on nations, the president said: “To have a great nation, you have to have religion. I believe that so strongly. There has to be something after we go through all of this — and that something is God.”
“For most of our country’s history, the Bible was found in every classroom in the nation, yet in many schools today students are instead indoctrinated with anti-religious propaganda and some are punished for their religious beliefs. Very, very strongly punished,” Trump continued. “When faith gets weaker, our country seems to get weaker. When faith gets stronger, as it is right now, we’re having a very good period of time after some rough years, good things happen for our country. It’s amazing the way it seems to work that way.”
In the same vein, Trump later said that the US has “to bring back religion in America, bring it back stronger than ever before.
The Department of Education “will soon issue new guidance protecting the right to prayer in our public schools,” Trump announced.
A 1962 Supreme Court ruling in the case Engel v. Vitale found that state-sponsored prayer in public schools presents a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. During the meeting, the president didn’t mention how a future policy of the DOE would coexist with the prior ruling.
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