They believe religion is absolutely vital to maintain moral health in our society. They believe that George Washington told his country no lie when he stressed this thought in his farewell address. A secular, liberal state can never, in the end, they believe, maintain and enforce a moral creed. Any attempt will ultimately break down into the chaos of relativism, nihilism, statism or some other immoral configuration. Therefore religion must be socialized and inculcated in the citizenry.
School prayer follows naturally.
It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned. The Supreme Court's alleged history is a prime example of picking and choosing elements from the past to suit the ideological fashions of the present. 57 Much of the testimony of these groups is a discussion of the meaning of the First Amendment and the historical background associated with it. I chose not to fine-tune this discussion in this paper, other than to broadly display it in the charts here. The power of the polar dichotomy of the liberty-religion groups sketched here shows itself in that, even though the school prayer issue has taken several radical permutations in the last three decades, the groups involved have not changed their polar positions.