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Those 21 words brought not a blessing but an immediate curse upon Bishop Knox, principal of Wingfield High School in Jackson, Mississippi. Last month Knox allowed the prayer to be read over the school's public address system after students had voted 490 to 96 for it. But for Jackson school officials that was an unforgivable trespass by religion into secular territory. Knox was fired...
...Data Service and National Demographics & Lifestyles, 37% of households in the area participate in Bible studies, one of the highest rates in the U.S. (The figure for Los Angeles, for example, is 14%.) Furthermore, 97% of 2,500 residents polled by phone by Jackson's daily Clarion-Ledger said Knox should not have been fired. Says Republican state senator Mike Gunn: "Christians feel, rightfully so, that there has been an assault on our Christian commitment, on our Christianity...
...Supreme Court, citing the principle of separation of church and state, barred compulsory prayer in public schools. Knox, however, believes he kept within judicial guidelines set in 1992 when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans ruled that prayer was permissible at graduation ceremonies if it was nonproselytizing, nonsectarian, student initiated and student led. Thus, when students approached him about praying in school, the principal, a born-again Christian, allowed them to take a vote on the issue. Moreover, the text of the prayer read at Wingfield High refers to no specific religion...
...American Family Association, which is headed by right-wing evangelist Donald Wildmon, is supplying Knox with an attorney who hopes to file a lawsuit on behalf of the students and perhaps take it all the way to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Governor Fordice, a Republican who once raised a national uproar by referring to America as "a Christian nation," is zealously exploiting the issue, declaring, "Any place that Americans want to pray ought to be the place for prayer...
...recommendation, nor is it more than a page or two of the last 90+ page issue). Most "real" magazines could learn many things about graphic design from the inset photos and graphics and various display faces Leslie deploys; the art (last issue had cover art by Chris Knox!) is neat, too, but the meat of the magazine is interviews--with Peter Jefferies, Barbara Manning, Madder Rose, A. Snail, Crystallized Movements, S. Moxham and various lesser lights worth learning about. Other record reviews are by one or more members of Sebadoh. If I've convinced you to check...