The need for prayer and Bible time is a way to teach good morals, and encourage one to treat each other with kindness and respect. Stats prove that violence has dramatically increased since it was removed from schools. Specialty Research Associates, under the direction of David Barton, has released a report entitled America: To Pray or Not to Pray which uses over 100 pages of graphs and statistical analysis to prove that crime, venereal disease, premarital sex, illiteracy, suicide, drug use, public corruption, and other social ills began a dramatic increase after the Engel vs. Vitale Supreme Court decision was made in 1962 which banned school prayer.



