ZOMBIE CONSERVATIVE LIES

(h/t Kevin Drum)

In 1984, David Osborne wrote a profile of Newt Gingrich and this passage stuck out:

Next, consider the issue of prayer in the schools. When speaking for this cause, Gingrich always describes the goal as "voluntary prayer"—ignoring the fact that students are already free to pray on their own, voluntarily. He maintains that current Supreme Court interpretation of the law does not even allow students to pray before eating their lunches, or to read their Bibles at school—both of which are simply false.

Almost 37 27 years later, I still come across these lies about school prayer.