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Capt. Obvious

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Wed Mar 9, 2016, 03:32 PM Mar 2016

Two groups of kids refuse to join in school prayer during lunch at Hollister Missouri High School [View all]





Background:

Hollister schools told to halt organized prayer, restrict ministers' access to students

It started when a Hollister parent saw a video, widely shared on social media, showing a local youth minister leading students in a midday prayer at the middle school.

The alarmed parent reached out to the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which sent a letter to Hollister Superintendent Brian Wilson. The Feb. 10 letter stated the organized prayer was an "egregious violation of the First Amendment and must be stopped immediately."

"The video depicts an adult leading the entire lunchroom in a prayer with all of the students surrounding him in a circle," Patrick Elliott, the foundation's attorney, wrote in the letter. "The parent's child also reports that students were directed in a similar prayer all of last week and this week as well during the seventh-grade lunch."

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