The U.S. 5 th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the policy. Last November, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would consider the case. A decision is expected this summer. Strickland said that students freedom to pray voluntarily already is protected, but the real issue is government regulation of prayers content. If the referendum means what it says, it s already legal.
Students can gather voluntarily before, during and after ballgames to pray.
The fundamental point is that government ought to stay out of regulating prayer. Government entanglement in religion is blatantly unconstitutional. Freedom to pray is too precious to be determined by majority vote on a state primary ballot, he continued. The purpose of the First Amendment is to protect the freedom of everyone to pray and worship, whether that person is in the majority or the minority.