653 F.2d at 901, and to explicitly call for prayer requests, invoke a moment of silence for prayer with the phrase “let us pray,” actually hold such a moment of silence, and sometimes conclude with “Amen” has the effect of both endorsing religious activity, as well as encouraging or facilitating its practice. This behavior is clearly the type of “invocation of God’s blessings” of which the Supreme Court disapproved in Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421, 422, 82 S.Ct. 1261, 1262, 8 L.Ed.2d 601 (1962). Allred’s use of the concept of silent prayer could quite reasonably appear to be an “endorsement [of religion that] is not consistent with the established principle that the government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.” Jaffree II, 472 U.S. at 60, 105 S.Ct. at 2491 (<HOLDING>); see also Schempp, 374 U.S. at 225, 83 S.Ct.
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