Dear Editor: The Supreme Court of the United States prohibited the students of a public school from worshiping and praying to their God, and abridged the students freedom of speech before a football game. Does the Constitution of the U.S. authorize the Supreme Court to take this action? The first amendment to the Constitution is as follows: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assembly, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” Congress does not have the right to prohibit the students from the free exercise of religion and speech. Congress, or the students, did not establish a State Religion, for the kids just wanted to say a prayer. Does the Supreme Court have the right to prohibit the students from worshiping God by a prayer, and to prohibit freedom of speech? The following is part of our Constitution. Article I “Section I. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States., which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.” The following is not part of our Constitution. “The Separation of Church and State.” This was part of the Soviet Union’s constitution when Stalin was in power. The media has taken it out of the Soviet’s constitution and put it in our constitution. You cannot separate God from His creation. What the Supreme Court did was to claim that they were interpreting the Constitution, when in fact they were enacting a law which Congress is prohibited from enacting. “Thou shall not have the freedom to pray to the Lord your God, or to have freedom of speech.” The Supreme Court’s acts caused the decline of the education of our Public Schools. Otto Hottendorf