Walter B. Jones: “I feel strongly about the right to pray in public, and believe that prayer at public school sporting events is in fact…”

“I feel strongly about the right to pray in public, and believe that prayer at public school sporting events is in fact constitutional. Our Nation's military has fought and sacrificed to protect and preserve these rights. America was built upon Judeo-Christian values. Yet this foundation of our culture is so often ignored in today's society, and even frowned upon. Citizens throughout the country are being denied one of the most basic, fundamental rights we have fought so hard to protect, the right to freely express one's religious beliefs. Children have been barred from bowing their heads in private prayers and writing their religious beliefs in school papers, and even from bringing the Bible to school. Freedom of religion is one of the most protected rights guaranteed to us under the Constitution. There are far too many incidents of students and student athletes being prevented from expression of their religious beliefs.”