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The battle over prayer in school is raging in Texas right now, with Attorney General Ken Paxton vowing to defend any school district that introduces the controversial practice under a recent state law expanding religious expression in education.

For the entirety of my life, and I’m old, the prohibition on public school-sponsored prayer seemed like settled constitutional science, owing to a 1962 Supreme Court decision barring what had previously been a widespread and normal practice.

FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FROM DISPLAYING TEN COMMANDMENTS IN CLASSROOMS

In the past, I agreed with this form of separation of church and state . For me, it was almost a question of better safe than sorry regarding the righ

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