Of course it is unconstitutional! If any institution requires that you say, what is essentially a patriotic prayer to the most popular god in the country, first thing in the morning, in front of your peer group, along with everybody who happens to be attending your government funded school, then it is obviously in conflict with the separation between church and state!
Duh!
And don't give me that bullshit about the separation between church and state not being in the constitution. Your right! It is not. It is in the first amendment to the Constitution.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Does that seem clear enough to everybody? Good!
Now on a personal note I can remember during my early years in school, after coming to understand that I was not amongst the believers, having to stand there, with my hand over my heart, and pay homage to a deity that I did not even believe in. That, my friends, causes an unreasonable sense of isolation. It is literally like being in a room where you speak a different language then everybody else. It sucks. And the idea that saying it every morning will wear somebody down until they run to the nearest church is ridiculous!
We live in a country where everybody may worship to whomever they wish, however they wish. It is not a country where, if you have the numbers, you can force people who do not usually worship your god pretend to worship him, or her, just so you can feel superior.
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