The state courts have been pulled into the culture debates over how high to erect the wall between church and state. One of the more provocative questions is whether banning student-led prayer is a limitation of free speech. But Jeremy Rabkin is right. The metaphor for war inflates the cultural conflicts. In a democracy such as ours, religious conservatives build coalitions with like-minded secularists over concerns of sexual license and educational failure.
Government is about popular consent.
That means the wall between church and state is real, but not so high that we can't clasp hands over it.