when the supreme court struck it down, carl mcintyre rejoiced and said, this was no prayer at all. get this out of the schools and we don't need to have it. the tide swiftly turned when the same sort of logic was then applied to striking down bible readings which, again, was very restricted in most schools where it was reading a passage often of the king james bible without note or comment was supposed to be how it was implemented. if any of you remember bible reading in the schools, your memory may vary on how it was actually carried out in different localities, and even there there were evangelicals who disputed about whether that did any good to read the bible without any actual interpretation or encouragement to believe it, whether that actually constituted an act of worship or not. although it tended to be that conservative evangelicals, in this case carl mcintyre was not a fan of that decision. unlike the regent's prayer in new york, the bible is in fact the bible and the word of god so that did mobilize evangelicals i think probably more than roe v wade would. that one tende