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Trump Reinforces Right to Pray in Public Schools

Patsy Widakuswara

   WHITE HOUSE - On National Religious Freedom Day, Thursday, the Trump
   administration released what it calls an updated guidance laying out
   "constitutional protections for prayer and religious expression in
   public schools."

   "You have the right to pray," President Donald Trump declared during a
   ceremony in the Oval Office. "And that's a very important and powerful
   right. There's nothing more important than that."

   Surrounded by students who administration officials contend have
   suffered discrimination for practicing religion at school, the
   president repeated his accusation that his Democratic opponents are
   waging a war against the faithful. "There is a growing totalitarian
   impulse on the far left that seeks to punish, restrict and even
   prohibit religious expression," he said.

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