Civil Liberties: Strict Separation Of Church And State

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Christians, a religious grouping that contains Roman Catholics and Protestants of various denominations, comprise about 83% of all Americans, according to a December 1995 poll conducted by the Gallup Organization, but that does not mean that the majority means all religion must be Christian, we are still a melting pot society (“Religion,” 1). Most students throughout the United States attend a public school in their town, and most of those students practice separate unique religion in which prayers and teaching a certain religion within the public school system would be offensive and inappropriate. The separation of church and state was not always as associated in the way our school systems were run in the past, when prayer was a specific period set aside in the day for…show more content…
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