Any type of worship that is imposed on a person by the government at any level can be coercive in nature. I have always believed that one of the truly great things about America is that we have absolute freedom of religion, and that freedom includes the right not to participate. I believe that as our society becomes more diverse religiously, it will become less and less practical, or even feasible, for government at any level to impose prayer on crowds of people. There will simply be too many dissenters. This is happening now even in rural areas or parts of the country that tend to be dominated by members of one religious group.
Dissenters are tired of being treated like second-class citizens.
That's what happened in Santa Fe, Texas, and you see the result. I do not find that argument very persuasive, but thanks to these court rulings we're stuck with it. I should also point out that courts tend to take a dimmer view of government's attempts to use religion in a sectarian way. There is a certain tension in the First Amendment, in that the courts have said that parents are to be the ultimate sources of religious meaning for children. Therefore, parents get to decide what religious views their own children are exposed to.