As some of the country pauses to reflect on prayer's role in private and public life for National Day of Prayer Thursday, the Texas Legislature is advancing a bill to put the Ten Commandments in some public school classrooms.
Thursday is National Day of Prayer, a day in which the country pauses to reflect on prayer's role in private and public life.However, it also comes as more conservatives consider putting prayer and religious symbols in public places, like the Ten Commandments, in some public school classrooms.That idea, just a few years ago, would have been deemed unconstitutional by many.
Even so, the Supreme Court, over the last 50 years or so, has generally always put some restrictions on faith.In the 1970s, the Supreme Court established what's known as the"lemon test" from the case Lemon v. Kurtzman. As a result of that ruling, conservatives appear poised to push the limits of what the Supreme Court will allow.SEE MORE: Why are fewer Americans religious?
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