re: #718 swamprat

Again:

What force did Justice Black’s decision have? What changed because of that decision?

You seem to have trouble with this, so I’ll answer for you:

The answer is, of course, that almost nothing changed, because there had been a separation of church and state from the beginning of United States.

Seriously?

Didn’t we have prayer in school?
Weren’t the old school primers comprised largely of bible verses?- (and New Testament ones at that!)

Correct me if I’m wrong… or just toss an insult my way.
If this isn’t revisionism … what am I missing?

I am not saying the judgment was wrong, but I certainly thought things changed because of it.

I am prepared to be mistaken /or insulted, it’s all good.

Set yourself up more, why dontcha?

The case I think whatsisbucket was on about, Everson vs. Board of Education applied the strictures of the Establishment Clause to the actions of the states. The case did not involve school prayer.

School prayer, although it had been an issue since the nineteenth century, was not ruled on by the Court for another fifteen years. By the early 1970s, the Court had well established the unconstitutionality of school prayer and religious content.