To the editor — The YH-R editorial board suggested that Prosser school board member Frank Vermulm’s proposal to begin the school board meetings with prayer somehow violated the Constitution.
A casual suggestion at a Prosser school board meeting last month flared into another example of why recent efforts to erode the long-established separation of church and state should cease.
PROSSER, Wash.-The student representative opposition to the Prosser School Board beginning its meetings with a prayer has now been taken up by the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
A suggestion that the Prosser School Board should open its meetings with a prayer has resulted in objections from students and threats of legal action from a national organization. During a …