As recent events have shown, eruptions of mass violence can occur just about anywhere. When that happens, victims need prompt, professional medical intervention – not refusals to help based on bogus claims of religious freedom.

Public education in Florida must not be tainted with fringe or religiously tinged belief systems. Otherwise, students will be subjected to indoctrination by way of poor science and literalist biblical interpretation.

Government officials in Brevard County, Fla., violated the Con­stitution by consistently relying on clergy from mainstream monotheistic religions to offer invocations before official meetings, a federal appeals court ruled July 8.