About 200 people at a high school football game in Texas recited the Lord’s Prayer, fewer than the number organizers of “spontaneous” prayer sessions at such games had predicted. Last week, 25,000 people gathered in Asheville, N.C., at a rally sponsored by group calling for the recitation of the prayer at high school games.
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