Students already have the right to pray in public schools as long as their actions don’t disrupt class and are voluntary. When Trump’s Christian nationalist fan base talks about 'school prayer,' they usually mean some type of coercive worship experience that a majority forces onto a minority against their will.

Although the Religious Freedom Restoration Act is still sometimes used in ways that genuinely protect religious minorities, it is now too often exploited to justify discrimination and other harms to others.

For something like 40 years, Religious Right groups have been sanctimoniously lecturing the rest of us about how character counts and why we need 'godly' men and women in public office. But when put to the test, they tossed that standard aside.