From the football field to city council chambers, public prayers are offered daily, sometimes with little regard for the beliefs of the listeners.
Public prayer is a way of life in America and most people see nothing wrong with that.
But increasingly as our nation becomes more pluralistic, care must be taken not to offend people whose faith differs from ours, people in public positions believe. Abilene Superintendent Charles Hundley is a strict adherent to rules governing school prayer and is a stout defender of the Constitution. Probably nowhere is public prayer more disputed than in the context of public schools. Hundley said student prayers are not censored, but they must be non-sectarian. That sometimes poses a problem in a predominantly conservative Christian setting like Abilene.