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Originally Posted by August
Then every gun control law ever passed is just as unconstitutional.
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Yes to both.
Jefferson described his Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom as a "wall of separation," and this statute informed the 1st Amendment. It was a good idea then, and it remains a good idea.
Like it or not, any sanction given a Christian prayer (or even "nondenominational" prayer), must also be given to any other prayer that anyone wishes to speak. The state cannot judge between them. It could be blessings upon the graduates one minute, and telling muslim grads to smite infidels the next. Better to disallow both, and keep them where they remain, in the private sphere.