Issues like LGBTQ rights, reproductive freedom and public education are closely connected to religious freedom and church-state separation.

Federal courts have repeatedly ruled in favor of Bremerton School District – agreeing that the district had a right to stop an assistant football coach from praying with players and students at the 50-yard line after games. But the current U.S. Supreme Court vacancy looms over this and many other cases involving church-state separation.

Despite the age of the school prayer decisions and their clear command that public schools must not sponsor devotional activity, they are not always respected.