Is prayer in school constitutional?
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Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
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🗓️ 9 March 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Dirt Show. Today we have a show that will alienate everybody. I'm |
| 0:08.5 | talking about what shouldn't shouldn't be taught or encouraged in public schools, in |
| 0:15.8 | public elementary schools and high schools, but I want to focus primarily on elementary |
| 0:21.5 | schools and middle schools. So here's a summary. The right wing wants prayer in the school, |
| 0:29.5 | Christian prayer. Think you get it, but they'll settle for what's called non-denominational |
| 0:34.1 | prayer, but you got to pray to God according to the right every single day in school. But |
| 0:38.8 | the last thing they want is any mention of sex or race. So, you know, that's the right |
| 0:44.6 | wing position. Prayer, yes, race, sex, no. The left has exactly the opposite to you. Yes, |
| 0:52.4 | race. We have to teach equity and diversity and inclusion. And we definitely have to |
| 1:00.2 | teach about sex and how important transgender sex is and how important it is to treat people |
| 1:08.1 | equally, which I completely agree to. Question is whether you do it in schools, but they |
| 1:13.6 | don't want to prayer in the schools. At least most of them don't. Some on the left do |
| 1:18.0 | one prayer in the schools. For example, Mayor Adams, who I generally admire and think |
| 1:24.6 | well of the mayor of New York, gave a speech the other day and said he wants to introduce |
| 1:30.4 | prayer in the schools. And as far as the first amendment is concerned, here's what he said, |
| 1:36.5 | don't tell me about no separation of church and state. Hey, Mayor Adams, I'm going to |
| 1:44.2 | tell you about separation of church and state. It's in the Constitution. It's the first |
| 1:50.8 | thing in the amendments to the Constitution. The First Amendment Congress shall make no |
| 1:57.4 | law respecting an establishment of religion in the Supreme Court. Over the years has interpreted |
| 2:03.9 | that to me. No, you can't have prayer in the public schools. Prayer is an establishment |
| 2:09.8 | of religion. It's a preference for religion over non-religion people. No, that's not |
| 2:16.5 | true. A very significant number of people in the United States don't believe in formal |
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