Sentences with phrase «voluntary prayer in schools»

I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence.

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.

He then urged the Senate «to reaffirm that voluntary prayer in schools is indeed a basic right of our people» and added that he hopes the Democratic - controlled House will follow suit.

The resolution goes on to defend voluntary prayer in schools and religious displays on public property because they reveal «the positive role that Christianity has played in this great nation of ours.

, would cut off federal funds from school districts that bar individual, voluntary prayers in schools.

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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.

Washington — The White House and its supporters in the Congress reportedly have launched an offensive aimed at beginning debate in the Senate as early as this week on a constitutional amendment allowing voluntary prayer in public schools.

Washington — As bills to outlaw abortion and to end school busing moved toward legislative action last week, the Senate approved a measure endorsing voluntary prayer in public schools.

The court rejected the school district's argument that the prayer meetings were an extension of the voluntary, «open forum» prayer meetings upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court last December in a higher - education case, Widmar v. Vincent.

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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.