U.S. Department of Education -in response to your post as pictured below.
The separation of church and state is not just a constitutional principle—it is a safeguard for freedom, a foundation for diversity, and a protection for the integrity of both religion and democracy. Nowhere is this more critical than in our public schools, where young minds are shaped not by dogma, but by knowledge, curiosity, and critical thinking.
In recent times, however, we’ve witnessed an alarming shift. When the U.S. Department of Education begins to adopt a theocratic tone—when policy is guided less by educational evidence and more by religious ideology—we must sound the alarm. Not because faith is the enemy, but because the classroom should never be a pulpit.
Our children deserve an education grounded in facts, open dialogue, and inclusive values—not one filtered through a single religious lens. The moment we allow a government agency to dictate spiritual belief, we betray both the Constitution and the very spirit of faith itself. True belief does not need government enforcement—it thrives in freedom.
To blur the line between church and state, especially in education, is to risk alienating millions of students who come from diverse backgrounds: Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, atheist, and beyond. It tells them they don’t belong. That their identity is less valid. That their voices are less welcome. That is not the America we believe in.
We must remember: the strength of this country has always been in its pluralism. In its bold idea that people can believe differently and still learn together, live together, and lead together.
Let us protect that. Let us sound the alarm. We must DEMAND a Department of Education that teaches ALL children.
– The Secular Education Association
Secular Education Association
What people are saying:
- Secular Education Association: @followers
- Facebook User: Secular Education Association found your comment and page from Facebook User. 👍
- Facebook User: It’s legal, but inappropriate for the U.S. Dept of Education to post on their website. The National Day of Prayer has over time morphed into a Christian Nationalist event, and apparently the newly Christianized Dept of Ed had to chime in. Franklin Graham is extremist in his views and has been prohibited from holding rallies in various European venues due to his bigotry.
- Facebook User: Oh If they want to have prayer or wish time or manifesting…. I’ve got a list of prayers! “That Americans will vote for competent humans that value all life”. “That the current president will be replaced” “that all humans will be treated equally” “that we will continue to dismantle patriarchy”…… they want prayers we will offer to lead them!
- Facebook User: Of course: Franklin Graham 🤦🏼♀️
- Facebook User: Yeah. Don’t get me wrong. I am a christian. A proud United Methodist who is very involved in my church and attends almost every sunday. This just creeps me out though. I hate religion in the public schools, because not everyone is christian, and what they really want is Christianity in the public schools. It’s okay to be Jewish. Or Muslim. Or Buddhist. Or whatever else you choose to believe in. I promise. One religion isn’t better than another, and christianity shpuldn’t be forced on anyone.
- Facebook User: People are free to pray 24/7…..loud and proud in appropriate places…silently to themselves, without imposing on those around them in other places…like public schools. I took a nursing position in a hospital amd during orientation it was advised after lunch we would be partaking in a ceremony promising to follow the teaching of JC. I approached the instructor and said I didn’t feel it was appropriate to have that as part of orientation….after all they hired people of all and no faith. The response was I could get up and walk out when it began….which I though would be incredibly rude. Instead I stayed and sat quietly.
- Facebook User: This is legal?? I’m so confused?
- Facebook User: Facebook User no. It’s not. It is a violation of separation of church and state. This is literally the Dept of Education showing religious favoritism which they are strictly prohibited from doing under the first amendment. Individuals have the right to promote a day of prayer, government is specifically prohibited from showing either favor to or disfavor to any religious view.
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