The Hmh Awards

March, 2000

this year's first amendent champsIn May 1999 senior Nicholas Becker learned that his high school in Sunderland, Maryland planned to include the Lord's Prayer as part of graduation ceremonies. Armed with printouts of legal opinions that he had pulled from the Internet, Becker made the case to his principal that the student-led prayer violates the constitutional separation of church and state. The ACLU and the state's attorney general supported Becker's argument.The principal agreed to replace the...