Theocracy's foot in the door

When the U.S. Supreme Court last year ruled, in effect, that a high school football coach who led his team in Christian prayer at the end of games had a First Amendment right to use the public school system to promote his religion, critics warned that this was a foot in the door to more dangerous theocratic intrusions on America’s secular democracy. That moment might be now: Religiously based state legislation around the country, including in Missouri, is prying that door wide open, using the court’s ruling as justification. The faithful should be the first to object to this dangerous mixing o...