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On June 19, 2000 the US Supreme Court stated that Before 1962 the main problems were talking,
student led prayer at the beginning of football games chewing gum, making noise, and misbehaviors like
was not to be permitted because it appeared that
running in the halls. Today the reported problems
government was sponsoring prayer. Two thirds of are rape, robbery, assault, arson, murder, and drug
the court supported this anti-God position.
abuse.
It should come of no surprise that a week later, on Since the courts have forced us to publicly turn away
June 28, 2000, five of the nine justices supported the from God, child abuse has increased by 240%,
right to partial birth abortion. This is the procedure corruption of public officials increased by 450%,
where a viable infant is pulled out of the womb feet illegal drug use increased by 1375% and sexual
first while leaving the head inside the mother. A hole abuse of children has increased by 2300%. Back in
is punctured into the baby's scull and the brains are 1990, when America: To Pray Or Not To Pray, was
sucked out. Then the baby is aborted. This
written, David Barton points out that the US had
procedure is done on babies that could be delivered become a world leader in violent crime, divorce
alive and survive.
rates, teen pregnancy rates, voluntary abortions,
illegal drug use, and illiteracy. With the forced
Let's examine what has happened to our country
removal of God from our public sector, we the
when we allow a court to actively demonstrate
people have turned to our own devices. Our
prejudice toward all things Christian:
morality without God has been abysmal!
David Barton in his book, America to Pray or not to
Pray, demonstrates with solid statistical evidence
that Americas moral decline began with the US
Supreme Courts decisions to remove God from
public schools in 1962.
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Mark B. Nemzek
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