School Prayer in America
The First Amendment says that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...," but what exactly did the authors mean by that? Did they simply mean that an official state church should not be established, as members of the Religious Right argue? Or did they mean that the government should not be involved with supporting and helping religion at all?

One of the values of Alleys' book is that he includes extensive selections from the arguments on both sides of the controversy and from the actual congressional record, providing readers a direct look into the deliberations on this matter from all perspectives. In this way, people can learn the real, substantive history behind the debates in a way that isn't possible with the typical propaganda which the Religious Right promotes.