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http://jesuswasaliberal.blogspot.com/2006/04/prayer-in-public-and-schools.htmlRight-wing religious fundamentalists often claim that since the Supreme Court allegedly “outlawed” school and public prayer that America has gone to moral hell. But before I express my views, allow me to confess my bias about prayer that result from the traditional family values that were handed down to me. Both my grandfathers were preachers. My father was a Holiness Baptist preacher who I heard pray every day that I knew him. Morning time, meal time, bed time, my father prayed anytime as needed, giving thanks and asking blessings upon the poor, sick and afflicted. That’s my family values that I am proud and grateful to carry-on.
I remember the time when we had sat down at the dinner table and grace had been said. My daddy asked me how my day had been at school. I told him that my 3rd grade class had gone that morning in 1960 to the First Baptist Church for a youth revival in my small southern town. He stopped eating, turned to my mother and asked her if she had given permission for me to go. She said that it was the first time that she had heard of it.
Then my daddy looked and me and asked me: “Son, did they make you pray?” I nodded yes and added that there had been an altar call from the preacher for us to come up and accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior.
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