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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, said her department’s new guidelines, which highlight “constitutionally protected prayer,” require state agencies to inform it when complaints are filed about limitations to the free exercise of religion. “Too many misinterpret a separation of church and state as an invitation for government to separate people from their faith,” DeVos said. “In reality, our Constitution doesn’t exist to protect us from religion; it exists to protect religion from government.” Daniel Mach, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief, said the Education Department's guidance about school prayer is very similar to language that has been in place since 2003 when issued by then-President George W. Bush. “Importantly, both the Bush guidance and the copycat document released today affirm a core constitutional protection: School officials are prohibited from imposing their faith on students,” Mach said. “The questi...

T he vaping controversy may be to Pres. Donald Trump what the alcohol controversy was to Pres. Woodrow Wilson but for different reasons. The prohibition of alcohol started as protest for the religious community at the time. Pres. Trump is responding to a potential public health crisis that is laregely affecting you. On Friday a listening session on e-cigarettes and vaping as held at teh White House wherein people representing both sides of issue debated vigorously.  At the start of the week Trump backed off of his intent to change federal regulation on vaping, but said the feds will be raising the purchasing age to 21. Some attendees are advocatin for a ban on flavors.  The age for purchasing is already 21 in some areas sucach as  the District of Columbia and Ohio. Trump said,  "You watch prohibition... if you don't give it to them, it is going to come here illegally... They could be selling something on a street corner that could be horrible... they are going to h...