Conservative Christian group blames falling SAT scores on lack of school prayer
The American Family Association of Kentucky believes school prayer has something to do with SAT scores and the AIDS epidemic.
Right Wing Watch reported that the conservative Christian group recently launched apetition calling for prayer in public schools.
The petition noted that Mississippi and Florida had enacted laws that allowed public prayers to be given at school assemblies, graduation ceremonies and sporting events.
“Prayer was in our schools for over 200 years before the anti-God forces took it out in 1962,” the petition stated. “After prayer was removed from our schools, teen pregnancy went up 500%, STD’s went up 226%, violent crime went up 500% and SAT scores went down for 18 years in a
