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God is Unwelcome

Lost Religious Liberties in Education at hands of U.S. Supreme Court

The following religious liberties of the states and the people have been lost under the U.S. Supreme Court's perverse interpretation of both:

• The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, and
• The Fourteenth Amendment.

Each of their "religious liberties" decisions are the utterly logical consequence of adopting these perverse interpretations.

1.	Communities lost the freedom to allow religious leaders access to public schools for teaching during the school day.	McCollum v. Board of Education, 333 U.S. 203 (1948)
2.	Communities lost the freedom to allow public school students to receive religious instruction off school grounds during the school day.	Zorach v. Clauson, 343 U.S. 306 (1952)
3.	Communities lost the freedom to allow nondenominational prayer in classrooms.	Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962)
4.	Communities lost the freedom to allow daily Bible reading in classrooms.	Abington Township v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (1963)
5.	Communities lost the freedom to regulate instruction regarding evolution.	Epperson v. Arkansas, 393 U.S. 97 (1968)
6.	Communities lost the freedom to help fund the repair and maintenance of their local private schools.	Committee for Public Education v. Nyquist, 413 U.S. 756 (1973)
7.	Communities lost the freedom to help parents pay private school tuition.	Sloan v. Lemon, 413 U.S. 825 (1973)
8.	Communities lost the freedom to provide auxiliary services (e.g., counseling testing, and psychological services, speech and hearing therapy, etc.) to private school students.	Meek v. Pittenger, 421 U.S. 349 (1975) modified by Mitchell v. Helms, 530 U.S. 793 (2000)
9.	States lost the freedom to provide for a moment of silence or a nondenominational prayer in public schools.	Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U.S. 38 (1985)
10.	Communities lost the freedom to hire teachers to teach secular subjects in private schools.	Aguilar v. Felton, 473 U.S. 402 (1985), modified by Agostini v. Felton, 521 U.S. 203 (1997)
11.	States lost the ability to determine that either both creationism and evolution or neither be taught in the public schools.	Edwards v. Aguillard, 482 U.S. 578 (1987)
12.	Communities lost the freedom to allow a rabbi or other clergyman to give an invocation at a public school graduation.	Lee v. Weisman, 505 U.S. 577 (1992)
13.	Communities lost the freedom to allow student-led, student-initiated prayer at football games.	Santa Fe Independent School Dist. v. Doe, 530 U. S. 290 (2000)