I caught your program about halfway through about Judge Moore's rock touring the nation.
Obviously there is never enough time to cover every base in a televised program with a fixed time slot, and maybe the part that "balanced" the piece was in the earlier portion of the show I missed. I also have to rely on my own fallible memory, while I'm sure you have a complete transcript of it.
It's interesting to be reminded that Roy Moore's 10 Commandments rock is touring the country, but not new news. It is more interesting that the reporter cites biblical mythology as if it's historical fact, but very forgivable in our mostly Christian nation, and to get a friendly interview with the people he was talking to, I'm sure someone sympathetic was needed.
I have a couple of minor corrections to make - that is, unless you already covered it accurately, or you simply wanted to make a propaganda piece for the extreme religious right.
1. Anybody can pray in a school. It is only illegal for a school to LEAD prayer, or violate other parts of the "Lemon Test". For some reason, the same tired propaganda about "Prayer is banned in schools" is repeated several times in the story, even by your reporter, and not challenged. Recess, break between classes, whenever a student has a free bit of time, they CAN pray on their own, if they want to. They can take their own copy of the bible onto school grounds and read it to their hearts' content. It's basically not OK for the school administration to MAKE kids pray the way the school administration wants them to. The relevent supreme court opinion is called the "Lemon Test" based on 'Lemon v. Kurtzman'.
1. The government's action must have a legitimate secular purpose;
2. The government's action must not have the primary effect of either advancing or inhibiting religion; and
3. The government's action must not result in an "excessive entanglement" of the government and religion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_v._Kurtzman
The Lemon Test is applied because of cases like this, bickering over content of school prayer that is (actually *was*) allowed at that time. It wasn't 'atheists' or 'communists' or 'shadowy evil powers'. In this case it's Christians and Christians versus other Christians who make the prayer go away, because none of the three brands of Christians involved can get along, and the school ends up in the middle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_Independent_School_District_v._Doe
2. A student in the government class says "In God We Trust" and "Under God" is printed on things because the founding fathers wanted it that way. False. It was added to money and the pledge during the McCarthy era. It's introduced into the narrative like it's fact. Nobody bothers with the straight (and long, possibly cut due to time restraints) version of the story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_allegiance
I use Wikipedia for the citations. It's free and fairly balanced, heavily linked, and contains fairly up-to-date current events. Maybe you could try using such a resource when you are editing stories such as your little piece tonight. If you feel Wikipedia's wrong, or doesn't have the proper perspective, I suggest you submit changes for yourself. Anybody can.
Perhaps you should do a piece about Wikipedia....
