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In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.

I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious.

I agree with the idea that there is a separation of church and state. That teachers should not be leading prayer - a particular kind of prayer in classrooms.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.

School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

School prayer, abortion, and school busing are indeed controversial issues. I doubt that there ever will be complete agreement on the public-policy questions they raise.

Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.