Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pieces of mail, made thousands of phone calls to encourage new voters to register. The result: a city registration record of 3,636,634. For a Democrat, who normally needs a cushion of up to 700,000 votes in the city if he is to have a prayer of winning the state, that was good news. Said one Kennedy aide: "These new Negro and Puerto Rican votes were expected to be the frosting. But now they're turning into the whole cake...
Hard feelings were also raised by church decisions on participation in the National Council of Churches and in the Negro struggle for civil rights. In the House of Deputies, delegates easily quashed a proposal by Southern churchmen to withdraw from the National Council because of its stands against school prayer and for civil rights. But the deputies compromised their support of the Council by urging Episcopal representatives "to seek to restrain the N.C.C. from efforts to influence specific legislation." Also in the interests of Southern harmony, lay deputies voted down a resolution, previously passed by the bishops, that recognized...
Howe noted that the 1876 platform of the Prohibitionist party supported the use of the Bible in schools and called for governmental "protection of purity," while the 1964 Republican platform advocates a school prayer amendment to the Constitution and calls for legislation to bar obscenity from the mails...
...Republican candidate has supported a constitutional amendment to overrule the school prayer decision and has attacked Court stands on legislative reapportionment and fair procedure in criminal cases...
...rise of U.S. religious diversity. In the late '40s, it ruled that tax-paid bussing of parochial schoolchildren and some public-school released-time programs are permissible because they do not involve the state in the actual teaching or support of religion. The recent ban on public-school prayers drew the line at state-enforced religious exercises in order to protect the country's nonbelievers. The alternative would have been for the Court to pass on every school prayer, thus further secularizing religion. Teaching about religion, if not of religion, is still permitted...