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Thread #129946   Message #2921324
Posted By: olddude
05-Jun-10 - 01:54 PM
Thread Name: BS: Thomas Jefferson
Subject: RE: BS: Thomas Jefferson
And why did we remove school prayer, it was not liberal, it was not conservative ... it was the founding fathers and the Supreme Court studying history

"No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination." --Thomas Jefferson: Elementary School Act, 1817. ME 17:425