The Ten Commandments, half a dozen German hymns and a school prayer were also translated.
The court's rulings on school prayer have now become complicated enough to confuse even constitutional lawyers.
So this year the Coalition resolved to have the constitution amended to restore the act's protections, and also to allow school prayer.
Politically, he stood on the middle ground: fundamentally conservative (supporting the Nicaraguan contras, school prayer and guns) but bravely outspoken, especially as a southerner, on civil rights.
On a variety of specific issues -- gay marriage, taxes, the death penalty, immigration, faith-based initiatives, school vouchers, school prayer -- many African Americans hold fairly conservative views.
Before the headline-grabbing school prayer battle, which began as a shoot-from-the-hip challenge to her older son's Baltimore public junior high school, O'Hair had no assets of her own to speak of.
But they would vote for Mr Obama if he ran with another plain-spoken warrior, especially if that warrior questions the ban on school prayer and has a union card, two Purple Hearts and three tattoos.
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The Santa Fe school board, like other school-prayer advocates, contends that football prayers fall into a different category.
The court's ruling on the Texas school-prayer case was equally limited.
So if one atheist or attention-grabbing student in a public school is offended by a prayer, the Ten Commandments or a nativity scene on school property, liberals demand that the offending object must go.
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It is possible that the court will deal with this simply by making a blanket statement about prayer at all high-school events.
They expect to earn a return, but to see social impact (jobs created, children in school) and spiritual fruit (families seeking prayer from chaplains and churches built).
In Texas, a legal battle has been fought over whether high school sports events can be preceded by a public prayer.
Thus, a student-led prayer offends against the constitution just as surely as one delivered by a school official.
It is pupils who offer the prayers, rather than school officials, and it is also pupils who decide whether to have a pre-game prayer at all.
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