With our secular government, the school cannot begin graduations with any sort of official statement for or against belief. Thus, the public schools are not only prohibited from leading the audience in a Christian prayer or a Jewish prayer or a Wicca ceremony, they are also prohibited from beginning a graduation ceremony with a denial of theistic belief. In contrast, with an atheistic government, the atheistic chant would not only be perfectly legal, but quite possibly mandatory. So before believers attack the courts for upholding the constitutional principle of separation of state and church, they should remember that that same principle prevents our government from being an atheistic government. And they should also remember that all of their religious freedoms are still intact.
Believers can still pray before, during, and after football games.
They just can't lead a prayer using a PA system at a school-organized gathering. All rights reserved.