Government and Religion: Praying in Public Schools A very important issue in the United States is the relationship between government and religion. Should there be a real connection between “Church and State”? In a letter to a Baptist minister, Thomas Jefferson stated that “the entire American people who have declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, building thus a wall of separation between church and church." State." (http://www.free2pray.info/Danbury.html). The phrase “a wall of separation between church and state” is often mentioned or cited during discussions regarding the intermingling of religion and politics and religion in generally perceived as two of the most controversial topics of conversation, often leading to heated debates on different issues However, things are certainly not lighter, when you combine the two topics into a single discussion about their relationship to each other. A crucial question in this. Discussion is a religion in the US education system. Until the mid-20th century, organized prayer and Bible reading were practiced in public schools across the country school prayer in Engel v. Vitale Only two years later, in another landmark case, the court would decide that even authorized Bible readings in school and other similar religious activities should not be permitted (http://www.oyez. org/cases). Should these sentences continue to stand in this country? YES. The United States government should continue to ban prayer in the public school system. Public School Prayer......middle of paper......General OneFile. Network. March 16, 2012. Boston, Rob. “Fact, Not Fiction: The True Story of the Supreme Court's School Prayer Rulings.” Church and State 60.9 (2007): 20+. General OneFile. Network. March 16, 2012. Boston, Rob. “End 'teacher-preachers' in public schools.” L'Umanista May-June 2007: 38+. General OneFile. Network. April 4, 2012.DelFattore, Joan. The fourth R: Conflicts over religion in American public schools. New Haven: Yale University Press, c2004. Print.Fraser, James W. Between Church and State: Religion and Public Education in a Multicultural America. New York: St. Martin's Press, c1999.Amundson, Kristen J. Religion in Public Schools. Arlington: American Association of School Administrators, c1986Rakove, Jack N. The United States Constitution and Declaration of Independence Annotated. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 2009.