When I was a youngster in elementary school, the daily reading of a passage from the Bible was a practice as much a part of classroom proceedings as the Pledge of Allegiance. The U.S. Supreme Court, ruling upon a suit challenging the constitutionality of the practice,rendered an opinion declaring it, indeed, unconstitutional. It was a very unpopular decision with many Americans, and in recent years there has been a growing clamor to change it. Instigated in large measure by conservative and fundamentalist Christian groups, the drive for a constutional amendment to bring back religion in t…
