Word: prayers
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TIME'S article "The Politics of Prayer" [Aug. 9] raises some questions that have not been fully considered. Our country is increasingly multiracial, multilingual and multireligious. There is no way a public school can satisfy the religious needs of all. The solution is to let the churches, synagogues, mosques and ethical-culture organizations provide the prayers and religious teaching on Saturday and Sunday, and allow the public schools to do the job for which they were designed in the remaining five days...
...Prayer in Public Schools...
...sure that politicians who have become involved in disputes over public-school prayer [July 26] did so out of concern not for those little souls but for their own jobs. As a Baptist public-school educator, I am against prayer in public school. I don't want someone else's faith taught to my children in the captive environment of a classroom, nor do I intend to teach my faith to those who have no choice but to listen...
Only too aware of the rumblings, Reagan endeavored to shore up his right flank. Speaking in Hartford to a convention of the Knights of Columbus, the Roman Catholic fraternal organization, he reaffirmed his support for constitutional amendments that would outlaw abortion and permit group prayer in public schools. Said Reagan to a standing ovation: "This national tragedy of abortion on demand must...