Sentences with phrase «for prayer in public school»

Keep it at home, practice it all you want in your heart, but when it comes to voting for prayer in public school, or more military funding of Israel, make that vote with everyone in mind, not just your narrow religious world view.

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The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).

I grew up in a time when the Lord's Prayer was recited in public school every morning, and when Christmas pageants were the norm for every kid.

I am not arguing for daily Bible reading and prayer in the public schools.

Before the 1970s, evangelicals voted as often for Democrats as for Republicans, but in the wake of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, a Supreme Court decision ending prayer in public schools, and the legalisation of abortion in 1973, the Republican Party recognised an opportunity to build a new coalition of Christian conservatives upset with the cultural changes sweeping the country.

He said federal law, under the Establishment Clause, is clear that public schools can not «approve in advance a student's prayer» or «carve out time specifically for religious expression.»

The government should not be permitted to create incentives for religious practice or belief (like giving favored status to religious organizations, as compared to other nonprofits), to facilitate the religious practices of some at the expense of others (like offering vocal prayers in public schools), or to accommodate one religion but not others with similar needs or problems (like limiting draft exemptions to members of traditional «peace churches») Within these guidelines, religious accommodations are fully in keeping with the First Amendment — albeit in conflict with strict separation.

And that children in public schools gather in the classroom for prayer.

They have also enacted laws requiring compulsory prayer in the all - black public schools and providing birth - control programs for Africa, Asia and Alabama.

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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).

The situation may account for the way some conservatives want the creche on the Court House lawn, their prayers in public schools, definitions of America as Judaeo - Christian or Christian.

new questions such as released time for religious instruction, prayer and Bible reading in the public schools, tax exemptions for churches and other religious bodies, and the very meaning of religion itself occupied the attention of jurists.

Moral Majority and other groups for what they call «voluntary prayer» in the public schools threatens the religious liberty of the minority that will oppose prayer in general or particular prayers.

They are the same people who fight nondenominational prayers in public schools, the use of public school facilities for meetings of high school religious - interest groups, and state support of private schools.

Being prohibited from persecuting others (by forcing Jewish kids to pray Christian prayers in a public school, for example) is not persecution.

I believe she is refering to the very Vocal Churches and Christians who have for 30 years been hollaring and screamin about the issues of prayer in public schools abortions and the anti- gay verbage we been hearing for so long... nearly every day somthing is beign said on these issues you must be mr. van winkle..

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.

Central to this drama are two Supreme Court cases: Engle v. Vitale (1962), in which the Court decided that government - directed prayer in public schools was an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment's establishment clause; and Abington v. Schempp (1963), which declared unconstitutional a Pennsylvania statute that provided for compulsory Bible reading in public classrooms.

It is one thing for courts to remind us that the government may not promote Christian tenets, as it did when it forbade the recitation of the Lord's Prayer in public schools in the Schempp case (1963).

Separating children for the sake of prayer or worship could prove extremely divisive in public schools already divided by race and other factors.

In the public schools, even the reciting of the Lord's Prayer or the Bible involves taking sides for or against the supersessionary claims.

President - Elect Donald Trump's pro-life platform against abortion, along with his support for traditional family values, marriage as stated in the Bible as one man and one woman instead of same - sex marriage, in favor of prayer and the reading of sacred scripture in our public schools, and his promise to appoint conservative judges to the United States Supreme Court made Evangelicals and even Democrats who espouse those positions to support Donald Trump.

Meanwhile, conservatives pressed for a constitutional amendment protecting prayer in public schools...

A bill that requires Tennessee's public schools to set aside one minute at the beginning of the school day for «meditation, or prayer, or personal beliefs» has been signed into law by Gov. Lamar Alexander, but the American Civil Liberties Union (aclu) of Tennessee intends to file suit shortly on the grounds that the law is in violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

If the constitutional amendment now pending in the Senate to return prayer to the public schools were to become law, school officials would be permitted either to lead students in prayer or to offer a moment for silent meditation, a Reagan Administration official said last week.

Attitudes: support for diversity (racial integration), a perception of inequity (that the public schools provide a lower quality education for low - income and minority kids), support for voluntary prayer in the schools, support for greater parent influence, desire for smaller schools, belief in what I call the «public school ideology» (which measures a normative attachment to public schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that choice and competition are likely to make schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the public schools.

President Clinton last week expressed qualified support for voluntary prayer in public schools, and said he is willing to discuss with House Republicans their intention to offer an amendment to the U.S. Constitution assuring students the right to pray.

West Virginia voters had approved the amendment by a wide margin last November, but Judge Elizabeth Hallanan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia in late February barred voluntary prayer in public schools on constitutional grounds.

The Reagan Administration's proposal for a constitutional amendment to permit organized prayer in public schools, which the President unveiled in a speech on May 6, was formally sent to Congress last week.

[xvi] It was standard practice, for example, for Protestant prayers to be recited and the Bible — specifically, the King James version of the Bible — to be read in the public schools.