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The Court ruled that any type of prayer, even that which is nondenominational, is unconstitutional governement sponsorship of religion.
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The Supreme Court decided to remove prayer from schools in 1963. Parents founght to restore prayer in the school through state and federal legislation.
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The Court found that Bible reading over the school intercom was nconstitutional, and that same year, the Court found that forcing a child to participate in Bible reading and prayer was unconstitutional.
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The Court ruled that a State statue banning the teaching of evolution was unconstitutional. A state cannot set a course of study in order to promote a religious viewpoint.
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The Court ruled that the posting of the Ten Commandments in schools was unconstitutional.
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The Court ruled that the State's moment of silence in a public school was unconstitutional, as a legislative record revealed that the motivation for the statute was the encourgement of prayer.
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The Court found it unconstitutional for the state to require the teaching of "creation science" in all instances in which evolution is taught. The statute had a clear religious motivation.
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The Court ruled it unconstitutional for a school district to provide any clergy to perform nondenominational prayer at elementary or secondary school graduation.
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The Texas State Board of Education approved major changes in the requirments for the state's textbooks. Conservatives on the board were successful in strengthening the requirements on teaching the Judeo-Christian influences of the nation's Founding Fathers.