Von Baeyer questions the truth of this claim, but even if true, he says, it doesn't justify use of the Lord's Prayer. Human rights legislation moves society ahead when the majority doesn't care. The fact that a majority of Germans in the early 1930s supported Hitler did not make his policies right. And the fact that a majority of people favor religious discrimination does not make it right. There's no constitutional guarantee of freedom from religion, which is what these people are seeking.
Stock argues that the right of all children to a moral, values-based education is at stake.
We're making a huge mistake if we abandon our Judeo-Christian heritage. When we remove religion from the classroom, it doesn't create a vacuumCanother morality moves in to take its place. Lois Sweet would agree with Stock's final statement. Sweet is the author of a comprehensive 1997 study of religion in Canadian education called God in the Classroom . What seems difficult for opponents of education in the classroom to understand is that education is never valueless.