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When the Supreme Court outlawed school prayers nearly ten years ago, it set loose an entire American cosmology of angels and devils and libertarians and ministers and pedants. Had the perversion of law really come to such a pass of depravity that children would be forbidden to pray? What of the separation of church and state? Religious and constitutional pieties contradicted one another. The emotional and the rational battled in politicians' minds...
...vote against the idea was, emotionally at least, heretical. But as Utah Representative K. Gunn McKay, a Mormon elder, said, "I do not want Government tampering with my faith." Ohio's Samuel L. Devine replied: "The courts say you can read dirty books but can't pray in school...
...York's ancient Emanuel Celler, 83, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. A majority of 240 to 162 favored it but that was 28 votes short of the required two-thirds. Remarkably, a considerable lobby of churchmen opposed the idea. They argued that children -and their parents-can pray at home and, more substantively, that the churches in America have flourished under the First Amendment, which would have been weakened by the proposed change...
...John Connally, Nixon's choice to negotiate the U.S. position in the most critical world monetary crisis in 40 years, is a man whose economic qualifications are the ability to add and unmitigated boorishness. God help us! Let us pray that another Keynes is waiting in the wings...
...black man, to have been deaf, dumb and blind, is like walking into a totally pitch black room and someone turns on a million-watt light bulb. It was probably the most beautiful, the most painful experience I've ever had. Look at it like this. Christians pray to Jesus and if Jesus walked into their rooms they would be speechless. When I walked into the visiting room and saw Malcolm. I was speechless. But in a matter of minutes, it was almost as if his soul merged with mine. He taught me that we must seek knowledge from...