Where else but on the fifty-yard line at a high-school football game should the determination be made that nothing is more American than public prayer. A Christian prayer, in particular. The Supreme Court ruling this week, another in a line of landmark cases, strongly defends the right of a person to express religious beliefs at school, even when they are teachers or coaches addressing students with disparate views who might feel left out or even offended by the speech. This decision, in effect, reverses the attitude held in the past that the main concern in a school should be for not establishing a particular religion or religious belief within a governmental institution. One reflex response to the ruling has been to call for Jews or Muslims or Wiccan teachers to make their way to center stage, or center field with candles, or prayer mats or