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Editorial: Court’s ruling on school prayer is supremely questionable

“There’s no crying in baseball,” said Tom Hanks’ baseball coach in “A League of Their Own.”

But how about prayer on a public high school’s football field?

After 60 years of precedent-setting battles to maintain a separation of church and state, that question has been thrown into confusion by the Supreme Court’s decision to side with a former high school football coach who held postgame prayer circles on his then-employer’s 50-yard line.

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