Every month we receive a newsletter from our home church back in Memphis. In one recent edition of the newsletter, the minister told how his car had been stolen from the parking lot of one of the local hospitals. He went on to state his belief that morality in America today is on the decline, especially in the large cities, and he further stated that the cause for this decline, in his opinion, has been the intentional, systematic removal of all discussion of religion for the educational institutions of America, beginning with the Supreme Court decisions of 1963 and 1964 which banned first Bible reading and then public prayer from the classroom.

I partially agree with him. Banning prayer from the classrooms of our schools is like banning breathing from the classroom. It cannot be done. As …