Trump Admin to Issue New Guidance on School Prayer

President Donald Trump announced Monday in a speech that his administration will issue new guidance to provide “total protection” for prayer in public schools.

Speaking at a meeting of the Justice Department’s Religious Liberty Commission, Trump said that “the Department of Education will soon issue new guidance protecting … prayer in our public schools, and it’s total protection.”

Though he didn’t go into detail about these new guidelines, he said: “For most of our country’s history, the Bible was found in every classroom in the nation, yet in many schools today students are instead indoctrinated with anti-religious propaganda and some are punished for their religious beliefs. Very, very strongly punished. It is ridiculous.”

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