Dear Editor: When I started to teach in the year of our lord, 1956, every public school in our republic began the day in prayer. But in the early 60s the Supreme Court outlawed prayer and bible reading. The assault on religion continues unabated. Teachers are allowed to hand out condoms in school but are forbidden to display The Ten Commandments. Recently a Louisiana judge rejected a program that teachers abstinence in public schools, ruling that the idea is religiously based. In recent months a zoning administrator ordered a Colorado woman to cease and desist from hosting prayer meetings in her home. A Missouri girl has filed suit in federal court after her bible was confiscated and she was threatened with arrest. A Texas judge ruled that students cannot even group together in prayer at an athletic event. In fact, it seems that students can indulge in almost any kind of behavior except prayer. Will you agree that the consequences have been disastrous? Today in many urban communities 70 percent of children are born to single women. Illegitimacy is the most important social issue of our time because it drives all of the other social problems. The welfare system has resulted in a permanent underclass of spiritually impoverished Americans and social disintegration of the communities where they live! Do not such facts indicate that prayer and The Ten Commandments should be returned to the public square? John Sabol