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Poll: What Do You Think About The Prayer Banner Decision?
A federal judge ordered the Cranston school department to remove a painted "school prayer" from the Cranston West auditorium — what do you think?

On Wednesday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Lagueux ruled that the "school prayer" painted on a wall of the Cranston High School West auditorium , finding that the prayer mural violates a 1962 Supreme Court decision banning prayer in public schools.
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The decision — and the public discussion leading up to it — has been a flashpoint for debate over the separation of church and state, and the "historical" value of the prayer mural, which Lagueux noted was affixed to the wall in 1963.
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"No amount of debate can make the School Prayer anything other than a prayer, and a Christian one at that," Lagueux added.
What do you think? Should the Prayer Banner have stayed up, or was Judge Lagueux correct in ordering it to be removed?
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