{"id":141028,"date":"2020-01-17T18:51:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T18:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/trump-administration-defends-constitutional-prayer-and-religious-liberty-in-schools\/"},"modified":"2020-01-17T18:51:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T18:51:39","slug":"trump-administration-defends-constitutional-prayer-and-religious-liberty-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/trump-administration-defends-constitutional-prayer-and-religious-liberty-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Defends Constitutional Prayer and Religious Liberty in Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON\u2014On Jan. 16, National Religious Freedom Day, the White House announced updated guidelines \u201con constitutional prayer in public schools.\u201d<\/p>\n

The guidelines state that public schools cant discriminate against students for praying in school or against organizations of religious affiliations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe administration is taking three big actions to ensure that people of faith are always able to exercise their rights to religious expression. These actions are just the latest President Trump has taken to defend the constitutionally protected right to the free exercise of religion,\u201d Domestic Policy Council Director Joe Grogan said during a morning press briefing.<\/p>\n

The three actions ensure religious groups get equal funding, protect prayer in schools, and mandate equal treatment of all groups before the federal government.<\/p>\n

Protecting Prayer in School<\/h2>\n

Grogan cited a 2018 case<\/a> in which a group of middle school students in Texas were told they werent allowed to pray for a friend who had passed away. The students were forced to pray behind a curtain or in the gym, away from other students.<\/p>\n

The guidelines that the Trump administration are introducing seek to limit this form of discrimination.<\/p>\n

A senior administration official stated: \u201cOne of the proposed regulations is that, as a condition of funding, a public institution of higher education cannot deny a religious student group the same benefits, privileges, and rights that other secular student groups have. This places religious student groups on equal footing with secular student groups at public institutions of higher education.\u201d<\/p>\n

Similarly, the Department of Education plans to add a requirement to public elementary and secondary schools regarding funding eligibility. Public schools that infringe on students right to freedom of religious expression risk losing federal funding.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeparate and apart from the notice of proposed rulemaking, the department is doing something that is very unique to the Department of Education, and it is fulfilling a statutory requirement to issue guidance on constitutionally protected prayer in public elementary and secondary schools,\u201d said a senior administration official.<\/p>\n

The administration also seeks to revise and update the 2003 guidance regarding prayer in public schools. The goal is to allow students to alert authorities more easily when they are being discriminated against.<\/p>\n

Later on Jan. 16, President Donald Trump hosted a group of educators and students from various religions, including Christians, Jews, and Muslims, in the Oval Office to commemorate National Religious Freedom Day.<\/p>\n

Students shared their stories of religious discrimination from schoolmates and the ways they overcame the discrimination. Educators shared the work theyve done to help protect their students from religious discrimination by creating organizations or providing support.<\/p>\n

Defending Religious Freedom<\/h2>\n

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