[blueerica]

I suspect that the desire to have everyone pray might have more to do with Puritanism than anything else. Sort of falls under the "One bad apple ruins the bushel" mentality, except that it's not bad apples, it's sinners.

Just a thought, at least on perhaps an origin of such a requirement, especially given their influence on the earliest years of America's public education system.

Most of the hype over 'Prayer in Schools' IMO is stupid. They're just getting riled up and defensive because some are claiming that prayer is not allowed, evah ever. It's uneducated nonsense, and it's a shame that it's continually being put out there by people who want to freak out themselves and others and want to feel like their rights have been violated somehow. Just dumb.