One of the gentlemen from whom I am a spiritual descendant, J. Gresham Machen, opposed prayer in schools recognizing that a state-sponsored prayer would suit no one but statists. He also declined the invitation of William Jennings Bryan to take the stand as Bryan’s witness in the Scopes trial.
I think that most religious conservatives as you call us would be pretty libertarian on this question.
The problem from my point of view is that we have no common thread that gives our culture any cohesion any longer. We used to have morals that generally reflected the second tablet of the law of the OT but that has not only disappeared but been turned on it’s head.
Now many in the culture (take note of the first four letters of that word) would have their anti-religion enforced upon everyone, including even children.
This isn’t sustainable.
