Sentences with phrase «spsv school prayer»

Dagny, How is introducing legislation that would give states carte blanche to have school prayer, gay marriage bans, abortion bans (all goalsof Ron Paul) without judicial review, pro liberty?

for example school prayer, i know it is a hot button issue but its a fact, school lead prayer isolates children who are of differant faiths.

Now, to be fair, they'll pretty much leave you alone as long as you don't «stir things up» like complaining about school prayer, especially at the HS football game.

The answer is that the Christian right in our country is constantly trying to force their religious beliefs into the public sphere (science education, school prayer at public schools, Decalogue displays at court houses, nativity scenes on city hall property, crosses in all kinds of public places, national days of prayer, etc.)-- if these things stopped, the outcry from us non-believers would be greatly diminished.

That school prayer is wrong, for example, but illegal drugs aren't.

L4H the court did not rule against school prayer for the reason you cited.

Of course not, but everyone still refers to that act as «banning school prayer».

The results of these and other Supreme Court decisions call to mind the warning issued by Justice Arthur I Goldberg (no Moral Majoritarian, he) some 25 years ago in the School Prayer Cases.

You said, «Of course not, but everyone still refers to that act as «banning school prayer».»

This Supreme Court also ruled against school prayer.

As a result, a five-fold increase in the number of mass shootings has occurred, when comparing the 30 years of impact of school prayer (i.e. 1949 - 1981) against the impact of no school prayer (i.e. 1982 — 2012).

Christians have tended to concentrate on whether the court reached the right result (according to their view) on a particular issue, whether it's abortion rights or school prayer.

No matter how you look at it, school prayer protected our children.

@Live4Him, «Why did the court rule against school prayer in 1962?

From the graph below, it appears that there is less support for school prayer from each generation to the next:

If a person at graduation were to suddenly start praying over the microphone to Allah I bet the school would suddenly ban school prayers.

Fr Philippe obviously appreciates the beautiful liturgy at Solesmes, but seems to share the misapprehension of so many bishops, priests and liturgists that the laity, poor things, can not cope beyond the level of nursery rhyme hymns and play school prayers.

As everyone knows, there is a tremendous cultural struggle going on in national politics, manifested in disputes over abortion, capital punishment, gun control, crime, welfare, affirmative action, gay rights, school prayer, and other kindred things, many of which have a subtle racial dimension.

The problem isn't the absence of school prayers.

Does this stop Christians from tying up the supreme court with law suits concerning school prayer, abortion, gay marriage, or numerous other absurdities?

From @sarahposner: Newt, ca. 1994: wanted a constitutional amendment overturning SCOTUS decisions on school prayer.

Prayer changes things Prayer takes many Biblical forms Prayer is talking with God Prayer can be private Prayer can be corporate Prayer can be public Prayer can be political Prayer can be formal Prayer can be casual Prayer can be in public schools Prayer is not curtailed by the words of a man Prayer is never stopped by an unbeliever Prayer changes things

Their discomfort with cultural issues is reflected in their protests that matters such as partial - birth abortion, school prayer, or same - sex marriage are not proper items for political debate; they are rather «wedge issues» that conservatives illegitimately bring into the public arena in order to divide the nation (read: in order to cost Democrats votes).

Even school prayer was eliminated why would this take precedence.

No Nativity scenes at Christmas, no school prayer, taking In God We Trust out of the nation's government structures... and yet we talk Muslim holidays, placating to Muslims, and giving special priviledges to Muslims.

With the same dynamic, the «Christian Right» is tagged with the responsibility for unsettling our national politics by injecting the issues of abortion and school prayer.

He assembles these objections as a prelude to attacking his political opponents.Eichenwald rails against school prayer and conservative prayer rallies, stating that they are a violation of Jesus's warning to followers not to parade their piety publicly but to pray in secret (Matt 6:5 — 15).

Today, in his reading, Baptists are the phonies when they vote — as Southern Baptist Convention majorities did — to have government do their spiritual work for them by supporting, for instance, a school prayer amendment.

School prayer should be MANDATORY, and occurr in the following manner:

You said «I would like to remind you that not everyone who calls themself Christian is trying to push school prayer, pro-life, discrimination against LGBTs or restrictions of public discourse on diverse points of view.»

@LinCa I would like to remind you that not everyone who calls themself Christian is trying to push school prayer, pro-life, discrimination against LGBTs or restrictions of public discourse on diverse points of view.

He urged them to stand up for morality, patriotism, school prayer, and a strong national defense.

School prayer?

As it happens, I am no devotee of school prayer, on the ground that it is a distraction, a kind of trivializing surrogacy for truly weighty issues this society must find the courage to face and deal with.

Louis Fisher surveys the full sweep of U.S. history» from colonial debates about religious liberty to modern judicial, legislative, and executive positions on the status of conscientious objection, compulsory flag salutes, school prayer, Indian religious practices, and the religious use of peyote.

This school prayer room is also the local mosque for about 100 families in the area, and adults join the children for prayers at noon on Fridays.

Afraid of being branded as moralists, or even worse, proselytizers, politicians cling to surface arguments that remain in the public's comfort zone, choosing sides in the familiar debates on school prayer, pornography, media immorality and abortion.

Well before moving to the court's central chair, Rehnquist had stated his position, dissenting in the 1985 school prayer case, Wallace v. Jaffree.

He threw his weight behind the school prayer amendment, and even the defeat of that proposal has not made him reconsider.

This often results in the two communities being on opposite sides of hot issues like abortion or school prayers.

Despite his presumably sincere stand on such matters as school prayer, however, Reagan's religious position is not essentially theocratic, nor is this the basis of his ideological fit with most of the religious right.

The right - wing faction has promoted the school prayer amendment to the Consitituion and similar initiatives to declare America a «Christian nation;» it is workingintently to bring about a constitutional convention at which its representatives could propose curtailments of various freedoms; is drafting laws to confer official favor on specific religious establishments.

(1) School prayer: Despite the over-whelming weight of constitutional scholarship opposing state - sponsored school prayer, President Reagan has made known his wish to «get prayer back in the schools» (though in point of fact it has never been expelled).

This right - wing faction has promoted the school prayer amendment to the Constitution and similar initiatives to declare America a «Christian nation»; it is working intently to bring about a constitutional convention at which its representatives could propose curtailments of various freedoms, is drafting laws to confer official favor on specific religious establishments.

As I recall Americans were finally freed from mandatory school prayers every day.

In particular, it is the courts and the American Civil Liberties Union secularists who sued against school prayer and Bible reading, church tax exemptions, and the like.

We can rebut Reagan's assumption that religious practice automatically guarantees moral virtue and justifies favoring the ethical views of conservative over liberal Christians, Jews or agnostics on such specific issues as school prayer.

Against them, Reagan stands up for his economic and defense record, and argues for school prayer, tuition tax credits and abortion restrictions — not to impose any religious establishment but to restore religious freedom, strengthen traditional «social mores» and protect the unborn.

It comes up in controversy over school prayer amendments or in education bills.

He presses for Bible instruction in public schools, school prayer, public displays of the Ten Commandments, impeachment of «activist» judges, antiabortion statutes, prohibition of gay marriage and a host of other conservative positions.