“Religious Freedom” or Hypocrisy?
By D.W. Steel, The Oxford Eagle, 7 March 1996:

This week the “school prayer case” opened in U.S. District Court in Oxford, Mississippi. This case marks a turning point for the Constitution and for the principles of liberty and tolerance that this country has always enshrined, though not always practiced. The efforts of the Pontotoc County Schools to maintain daily intercom devotionals, to teach a class with the Bible as the sole textbook, and to hold teacher/student prayer sessions in the school gym, fly in the face of law and the Constitution, make a mockery of Mississippi’s own Christian traditions, and run counter to the ideal of giving parents primary responsibility for the religious and moral upbringing of their children.

More disturbing is the hypocritical, self-righteous tone of those who, trumpeting “religious freedom,” attempt to impose their own brand of indoctrination on their neighbors’ children. While enlisting the support of elected officials, these pharisaic demagogues are attempting to portray plaintiff Lisa Herdahl as an “outside agitator” for insisting on the rights that all Americans take for granted. These so-called leaders are succeeding only in bringing their own faith and their region into disrepute.
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/prayer.html