Charles C. Haynes: Push for ‘school prayer’ is about power, not prayer

  Never say die.

  That must be the motto of politicians, religious leaders and school leaders who keep pushing for state-sponsored prayers in public schools more than 50 years after the Supreme Court struck down the practice as a violation of the establishment clause of the First Amendment.

  The latest prayer restoration scheme comes from an Alabama state representative who proposed a law last month that would require teachers to read a prayer from the Congressional Record every day to students in Alabama classrooms.