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[quote=Anonymous]When did Obama start the War on Religion? I think the fighting over prayer in school started before he was even born.  Two Supreme Court decisions, Engel v. Vitale (1962) and Abington School District v. Schempp (1963), established what is now the current prohibition on state-sponsored prayer in schools.  I think there was a Catholic in the White House when this happened.  Maybe it was a Catholic conspiracy, no? ;)

In Wallace v. Jaffree, (1985) an Alabama Statute authorizing a 1-minute period of silence in all public schools "for meditation or voluntary prayer" was a law respecting the establishment of religion and thus violated the First Amendment. In 1987, Edwards v. Aguillard, SCOTUS heald that Louisiana's "Creationism Act" that forbid the teaching of the theory of evolution in public elementary and secondary schools unless accompanied by instruction in the theory of "creation science" violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
Was this Reagan's War on Religion?

I'm having a hard time coming up with anything anti-religion under Obama.  Rick Perry, can you please show me what landmark legislation or court cases Obama advocated that are a War on Religion?
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