Supreme Court on School Prayers

I am dismayed--not that prayers will not be said in our schools--but that they are forbidden by the high court of our land (“Prayers Banned at School Ceremonies,” June 25).

What quality of “freedom of speech” do we have in this country, where rap singers can advocate “killing cops,” among other things, but there is no freedom to invoke the name of God in a public school assembly of our young people? There seems to be plenty of freedom to blaspheme his name. His standard has been trampled under foot, and the result is evident in the lawlessness in our society.

I doubt very much that the writers of the Constitution would have considered banning the invocation of the name of God. And, the 1st Amendment reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

ELEANOR SCHOEN

Sylmar