Sentences with phrase «school prayer»

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

The problem isn't the absence of school prayers.

This argument may have implications not only for the curriculum but also for school prayer.

Why did the court rule against school prayer in 1962?

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

In the generations since, we have fought over school prayer, sex education and the teaching of everything from human origins to multiplication tables.

For thirty years the debate about school prayer was cast in stone.

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

Perry said he had no problem ignoring the Supreme Court ban on school prayer at this «crisis moment in our nation's history.»

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.

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

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.

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 may be able to save souls, but He's apparently freaked out by a Muslim prayer breakfast or school prayer policy.

From its very first episode in 1967, The Phil Donahue Show tackled controversial issues like school prayer, abortion, politics, and AIDS.

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

It ignores basic concerns of prayer amendment advocates - indeed, Nord opposes school prayer.

Since school prayer is clearly a matter of profound disagreement, it seems to follow that government should redeposit the question with local school boards, where it rested before the Supreme Court entered the fray in 1962.

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.

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.

Murphy Brown sets a bad example; adoption is better than abortion; and (one of my favorites from Pat Buchanan) school prayer makes students productive.

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

It is interesting, in this context, that Barton thinks the Supreme Court should have upheld school prayer in Engle v. Vitale.

The heart of their argument, carried without caveat in most press coverage, is that on a list of 28 items broadly described as «family values,» respondents ranked support for school prayer 25th and opposition to abortion 27th.

To the Republican it is about control and restoring America to its Christian foundation, ending abortion on demand, restoring the sancti ty of marriage, reinstating school prayer, seeing that the various citizenry know their place and taking out the garbage.

SPSV School Prayer Lord, Give us this day, the desire to learn, the courage to act, the determination to lead, the voice to speak and the heart to serve.

As commission member Gerald Holton recalls, Reagan thanked the commissioners at a White House ceremony for endorsing school prayer, vouchers, and the elimination of the Department of Education.

Justice Powell's order also reinstated a previous injunction that stopped school prayer in the state pending outcome of the case.

At a televised «town meeting» in Charlotte, N.C., Mr. Clinton said there are circumstances in which school prayer should be allowed.

Media reports of courthouse controversies involving school prayer, the posting of the Ten Commandments, and ACLU challenges to Nativity scenes on public squares — coupled with challenges about the types of music the school choir is permitted to present during the holiday season — often skew rational thought about the importance of teaching about religion.

But the Representatives and Senators were also confronted by a variety of other topics remaining on their legislative schedules, including school prayer, a mathematics and science initiative, and a summit conference on education.

Many advocates of school prayer attack the Court's Vitale decision on the grounds that, in the case, the Court misinterpreted the intentions of the First Amendment framers.

School administrators might understandably be confused by the Senate's adoption this month of three separate amendments to the proposed «goals 2000: educate America act» dealing with school prayer.

We incorporate the music classroom learning into school Prayer Services and Masses, and those students who are interested in private music lessons are able to take them after school.

You could help update the page on the proposed school prayer amendment or update Wikipedia's entry on duels to reflect the proposed amendment from 1838 that would have barred duel participants from holding any federal office.

«If you take a moment to think,» said Parker, «federal judges appointed for life have legalized abortion, homosexuality, pornography, same - sex marriages, and outlawed school prayer and the display of the Ten Commandments.»

School prayer also was debated on the Senate floor last week, as Senator Jesse A. Helms, Republican of North Carolina, sought passage...

The high court's decision, expected by next summer, will be its first ruling on school prayer since 1992, when it held 5 - 4 in a case from Rhode Island that...

Not until the later seventies, with the emergence of what was called «the religious new right,» did abortion become an urgent item on the evangelical agenda, along with issues such as school prayer and pornography On the eve of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, the Southern Baptist Convention, for example, was formally calling for more permissive abortion legislation.

On the issue of school prayer, the authors» statement that students may not pray in public schools is simply false.

Are you aware, that many of the actions against school prayer over the years were not begun by atheists at all, but by those of other religions (primarily Jews) and those of Christian sects that disagreed with the kind of prayer being offered.

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.