The Founders of our Republic… knew that nothing, absolutely nothing, is so inclined to foster among religious believers of various faiths a toleration – no, an affection – for one another than voluntarily joining in prayer together, to the God whom they all worship and seek… To deprive our society of that important unifying mechanism, in order to spare the non-believer what seems to me the minimal inconvenience of standing or even sitting in respectful nonparticipation, is as senseless in policy as it is unsupported in law.
Justice Antonin Scalia, writing the minority opinion for Lee v. Weisman, a Supreme Court case regarding prayer during graduation ceremonies, in We the Students: Supreme Court Cases for and about Students by Jamin B. Raskin (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2000) p.95 as quoted in One Nation Under God: The History of Prayer in America by James P. Moore, Jr. Doubleday, 2005. p.417
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