The RFA would allow student-sponsored prayer in public schools, but explicitly prohibits government from composing prayers on their behalf, and from compelling anyone to join in prayer. The extent to which prayers may be involved in a school activity would no longer be different than any other free speech issue, so long as government is simply permitting what students desire, rather than compelling them. It also assures that no student is required to join in any such activity. Likewise, a large group of students could not censor the religious speech of a smaller number. No student is compelled to participate, but they are not permitted to silence their classmates simply because they disagree.
Polls show the public supports a constitutional amendment for voluntary school prayer.
Public opinion polls throughout the last 30 years show three-fourths of the American public overwhelmingly support a constitutional amendment to allow voluntary prayer in public schools, and otherwise protect religious liberties from court intrusion. Government regulation of religious freedoms go far beyond prayer in school. Government regulation of religious liberties has gone far beyond prayer in school. San Francisco was ordered to take down a cross that had stood in a city park for 63 years. In 1985 our nation's Supreme Court overturned a moment of silence law because it gave students the opportunity to pray silently.