Last year, when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision barring the recitation of an official prayer, written by a state board, in New York's public schools, the hue and cry was deafening.
Last week, when the Supreme Court issued a far broader ban on religious observances in schools, the reaction was relatively mild. For one thing the court, apparently flabbergasted by the protests against its 1962 decision, had learned a bit about public relations.
Before the court last week were two separate but related cases:
> In Pennsylvania, a state law required...
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