Read the Constitution, dumbass.
Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].
Congressman Mark Alford
[July 25, 2026]If we are one nation under God… why should we keep watching prayer get kicked out of American classrooms?
COMMENT 👇
Should we return prayer to our schools?
👍 YES — Bring it back!
😟 NO — Explain why…
FFS.
Some of the responses:
Because it’s in the US Constitution! 😎
Absolutely not.
absolutely. along with the pledge of allegiance and only flag should be the american flag
Stupidity may be inherited, ignorance is a personal choice.
WEST VIRGINIA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION ET AL. v. BARNETTE ET AL., 319 U.S. 624 (1943)
Absolutely not. Separation of church and state. Go to a private school, teach it at home, go to whatever location for the religion you want. Do NOT indoctornate or force anyone to attend.
Under which God?
Which prayers? Are we including all religions?
Who’s prayer tradition? Catholic, Methodist, Quaker, Reform Jew, Orthodox Jews, Greek Orthodox, Coptic Christian, Romanian? In Latin, English, Hebrew, Spanish, Greek Aramaic?
Separation of Church and State. End of discussion.
It is good to know you want a state-supported religion. Would you tell us what kind of prayers you would allow in a public school?
If you can’t read and comprehend the first of our constitutional amendments, you have no business being in congress.
No. When was it in school? I went to a parochial school so we prayed there. When I went to public school we did not. That’s okay.
But curious, I’m almost 60. I’m not aware any public schools had prayer in my lifetime, so who are you talking to when you say “bring it back”?.
Anyone under 70 remember prayer in public school?
So if you have Christian prayer, will you also give equal time to Muslim prayers?
Your initial premise is flawed. The Constitution does not establish “one nation under God.”
The under God part was not part of the original pledge of allegiance either. It was put into show those “commies” that we were a god-fearing nation.
“….It seems trite but necessary to say that the First Amendment to our Constitution was designed to avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings. There is no mysticism in the American concept of the State or of the nature or origin of its authority. We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent….” – WEST VIRGINIA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION ET AL. v. BARNETTE ET AL., 319 U.S. 624 (1943)
*The Satanic Temple enters the chat*
Next, Pastafarians.
See, there’s this thing called the First Amendment… if someone CHOOSES to pray to the God of their understanding in the way their faith prays, that should be allowed. Insisting everyone pray to one God of a singular religion, it’s not. Everyone who says yes, would you want you child being forced to pray to The Flying Spaghetti Monster?
Called it.
Need to put prayer back in churches and education back in schools
No. There’s are many different religions of the citizens of this country. It’s one thing to teach the basics of all religions, it’s a whole other beast to require kids to pray when we have religious freedom in this country.
Did you have a particular deity in mind, or a particular manner in which to pray?
I’m 74, and I don’t remember ANY prayers in school.
I also don’t remember any math in Sunday school.
Just “Christian” prayer or everyone’s prayer?
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Should we bring back The Ten Commandments to the White House?
no. We can’t even get the constitution there.
first, we would have to have a president who can read.
The lightning strikes would be frequent and spectacular…
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All prayer or just republican prayer?
Not in public schools!
Send your children to a parochial school of your choice, if that is important to you. Let public schools teach education, not religion. Teaching common moral principles, is acceptable I think, such as honesty, respect, integrity, inclusion, etc.
Whose prayers? Everyone’s? Or just the ones you want?
Which prayers??? Which religion/faith???
I’m sorry but RETURN? What timeline is he from?
What does prayer have to do with education?
Do they teach you the first amendment in Congress school?
Apparently not.
No mandated prayer in public school because “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” You would hope the congressman would know better.
But we don’t have to explain “Yes”? 😂
He was hoping no one would notice.
Should we bring the constitution back to schools because the Congressman doesn’t know it.
Why is your church not enough for you?
Good question.
Glory to Thor!
See how it works, genius?
Lets teach the constitution cause the government seems to have misplaced their copy. Prayers belongs in churches and teaching belongs in schools.
We aren’t “one nation under god,” so of course we shouldn’t “bring prayer back to school.”
I started public school in the 50’s. we never had prayer in school back then. Alford doesn’t know what he is talking about or is hoping no one is old enough to remember we did not have “back in the day” so he can try and put it in now. We prayed in our home even though it wasn’t in our school. Seemed to work just fine.
I found it annoying being forced to go to church as a kid. I would’ve been even more annoyed to deal with it 6 days a week instead of just 1. I probabaly would’ve turned even more of an atheist if I was forced to engage in that.
No one ever stopped prayer in schools. The courts stopped MANDATED PRAYER in school. That is quite a different matter, friends. I don’t want to sound humorous but believers have always prayed – before a test, when a sitting in the principals office, before a big game. No one will stop a child. Students at Missouri school are allowed prayer time during Ramadan for example and the administration supports it. Students are allowed to have Christian Fellowship groups that pray together. Moments of silence occur in response to tragic events. However there are no times in a public school when teachers are required to lead a prayer while everyone prays along.
Bring back smoking in the bathroom
No. Next question.
Prayer is in schools, you can pray literally anywhere, but school isn’t the place to evangelize. Student led prayer like “see you at the pole” is already widely practiced in Missouri. Let’s keep organization-led prayer in the churches where it belongs and put education and academic rigor back in schools.
“….our Constitution was designed to avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings….”
Why does prayer have to be said aloud? God hears it even when it’s silent, right?
In his starship.
Nope. Anyone can say a silent prayer to whichever God they believe in at any time of the day in school. Lord knows I said plenty of them in my 30+ years in education. But organized, school sponsored prayer is not appropriate and violates the Constitution.
Pray for each child to have a meal during the school day, pray for a supportive, trained and fairly paid staff, pray for the resources needed to educate and train students, pray for secure and safe environments where students feel at ease, pray for common sense gun laws to ensure that it happens and pray for parents to have morals, be unselfish and practical when it comes to the needs of all students, not just theirs. How about that?
Let’s talk about it and everything else in an OPEN TOWN HALL!
Heh.
Is this the new non issue you will be ‘working for us’ again?
School is for academics. Church is for religion. This is the way.
Please read the Constitution and respect it. We don’t force religion on our fellow citizens.
No. Prayer is something that parents should be in control of, and instruction should be done on their time not classroom time.
Prayer has no place in public schools. If faith is a critical part of one’s life, take the private school route, consider home schooling or pray with your children before and after school. People of other faiths or have no religious beliefs should not be coerced into Christian prayer.
We were “one nation, indivisible” until Christians had to weasel into the pledge in the 1950s.
Same with paper money…
This should be qualified as Christian prayer since we were founded a Christian nation.
And this is the problem.
The Christian community needs to pray together and decide what one of the 39,000 versions of Christianity, is the right one.
Until they can agree, there is no reason for them to push it off onto others.
Also, The United States Constitution grants and protects our right to believe in any religion we want to. It also gives us the right to not believe in any type of religion. Most importantly it keeps the government from establishing any set religious beliefs as well as not making any laws to favor a religion.
So short answer. No!!! Keep your bs to yourself.
Interesting that you don’t ask one side to explain its position.
If you need a public place to pray and worship go to church. School is a place to learn. If people want to study mythology there is a place for that in higher education.
Are you sure that you want me to lead students in prayer?
If you want it in schools, keep it in your “Sunday Schools.” Religious freedom also means freedom FROM religion.
No. This is not a theocracy.
No, half the kids won’t take it seriously and will make fun of the half that do.
Yes, my children shall pray to Satan
You’re perfectly okay with teachers leading prayers to Baphomet?
“….our Constitution was designed to avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings….”
Would prayer be about Republican Jesus or Classic Jesus?
Diet?
This is what you choose to concern yourself with?
I remember student prayers over the intercom, often ending “in Jesus’s Name…” and I remember the Jewish classmate of mine sitting next to me with a pained look. Never said a word, but I thought then, and think now, this is wrong. Don’t tell me it’s “voluntary”. There’s no such thing in a peer environment of students. Organized prayers in public schools should not be brought back.
Hell no! Brain wash your kids in your church but not my kids!
Don’t you have more important things to do?
Since you’re using your church as a political tool, let’s start taxing them.
Stop being gross, Mark. This is not a Christian nation. Stop trying to ruin our country with your selfish fuckery.
Only if we can play dodgeball in your sanctuaries during services…
Pray to Zeus? To Odin? To a different “God” every day of each and every year throughout a public school education? That might be an element worth implementing in order to help people learn that a multitude of imaginary friends have existed over the timeline of recorded human history.
This is rage bait, right?
And you are…who???
Pray by yourself.
Good grief.
Church is for prayer, school is for education. Not everyone in public school practices Christianity or any religion for that matter. This is purely indoctrination. If you want your kids to be involved in religion, there’s a designated place for that. Leave the rest of them out of it.
Previously:
Yes, he really is that stupid (July 18, 2026)