(CNSNews.com) - A conservative group dedicated to individual rights and limited government has pronounced Tuesday a day of mourning for the demise of voluntary prayer in public schools.
It was forty years ago Tuesday that the U.S. Supreme Court banned voluntary school prayer, in what was billed as a "landmark" First Amendment case.
The Texas Justice Foundation says the 1962 Supreme Court ruling was "an exercise of raw judicial tyranny without precedent, one that produced a 40-year decline in the quality and safety of American schools."
In a statement, the Texas Justice Foundation said the ruling was historic all right - but for all the wrong reasons: "For the first time in American history, the will of the minority which opposed public prayer was imposed upon the majority."
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