When I was a youngster in elementary school, the daily reading of a passage from the Bible was a practice as much a part of classroom proceedings as the Pledge of Allegiance. The U.S. Supreme Court, ruling upon a suit challenging the constitutionality of the practice,rendered an opinion declaring it, indeed, unconstitutional. It was a very unpopular decision with many Americans, and in recent years there has been a growing clamor to change …showed first 75 words of 818 total…

…showed last 75 words of 818 total…quickly into disrepute, the constitution as we now know it would be a shambles in short order. It seems to me that by contravening the intent of the constitution's authors, subjecting developing young minds to unwarranted pressures and establishing a precedent that would herald widespread assault upon constitutional safeguards, a constitutional amendment requiring prayer in the public schools would represent a sure road to weakening of the constitutional fabric and signal a "dark ages" come.