Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe without researching the details of the case is fairly elementary. A student council chaplain delivered a prayer before each football game. A Mormon, as well as a Catholic family, filed suit under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. With just an overview of the case, you wonder what drove those families to file suit. After reading chapter five of God on Trial it gave me more understanding behind the families and the main individuals that were apart of the case. The particular chapter changed the way I viewed the case entirely. When you're only given the main points of the case, you cannot understand how the people involved in the case were impacted. Religion, in the south especially, can be taken …show more content…
A seventh grade teacher, David Wilson, told a Mormon student about the “non-Christian, cult-like nature of Mormonism, and its general evils”. Imagine being in seventh grade and have a teacher completely disrespect your beliefs. No person especially a child should have to be verbally abused about what they believe. David Wilson had to give an apology to the girl but that didn't stop the harassment. The girl was harassed mentally and physically by the other students saying “She was in a cult” and “She was going to hell”. This case was not just about ending prayer at football games; it was for ending the harassment for defending your beliefs. The Mason girls, who were friends with the Mormon girl, had a strong belief of the separation of church and state as their parents had instilled into them, although they were Baptist. They stood up for their friend and were also tormented. They were “pushed into lockers” and called “devil worshipers” because the youngest sister Danielle refused to accept a bible in class. Seems like the children in Santa Fe were raised on the belief that if you are not a Christian, you are going against the will of God. I wouldn't have imagined these details of this case without