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...reconstruct their motivations--a task made more urgent by the saturnalia of lawmaking under way. Mississippi has made murder on school property a capital crime, and Oregon may begin requiring a 72-hour holding period for kids who bring guns to school, as Kinkel did the day before the shooting. Members of Congress are pushing a bill that would crack down on dealers who sell firearms to children, and the President wants to spend a billion dollars on after-school programs, on the theory that if Kip had been at a "21st Century Community Learning Center," he wouldn't have...
...amendment, sponsored by Oklahoma Republican Ernest Istook, proposed to stretch freedom of religion far beyond the after-school clubs and private prayer already allowed under federal guidelines. It insisted that "the people's right to pray and to recognize their religious beliefs, heritage or traditions on public property, including schools, shall not be infringed." Worried opponents -- including plenty of religious organizations -- envision a turf war between faiths being fought on school grounds. In Istook's version of the future, they say, the most urgent religious freedom may be freedom from religion, not freedom...
...think it is great that young adults are taking their faith very seriously by making religion a part of their everyday life through the use of after-school prayer clubs [NATION, April 27]. But I hope that these individuals respect non-Christians as well as the beliefs of different denominations. Maliciously forcing religion on other students in school tends to soil the name of Christianity. And young Christians who want to spread their religion must make sure they are not harming others. SHELLEY PIENTKA Emporia, Kans...
...student, I think after-school prayer groups are unnecessary, especially since the students who attend these clubs are already believers. Why can't they just pray together at church or at home? God will listen. That would give students more time after school, and maybe encourage some of them to finish their homework. TANYA SAMOUELIAN Sydney, Australia...
Early drafts of the act were specifically pro-Christian. Ultimately, however, its argument was stated in pure civil-libertarian terms: prayers that would be coercive if required of all students during class are protected free speech if they are just one more after-school activity. Nevertheless, recalls Marc Stern, a staff lawyer with the American Jewish Congress, "there was great fear that this would serve as the base for very intrusive and aggressive proselytizing." Accordingly, Stern's group and other organizations challenged the law--only to see it sustained, 8 to 1, by the Supreme Court in 1990. Bill Clinton...