Word: prayers
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Congress begins work on busing, abortion and school prayer...
...Allowing prayer in public schools, the item on the New Right list, has congressional support that is a mile wide but an inch deep. Most legislators say favor finding a way to reverse the Supreme Court decision that school prayers the constitutional separation of and state, but they have never willing to fight strongly enough to such a proposal into law. Helms has a that would do just that; if it comes to a roll call on the House and Senate a majority will probably be unwill to go on record as being opposed to al children to pray...
...abortions during the first six months of pregnancy were unconstitutional. The courts are likely to reaffirm their past decisions on the disputed issues. Second, the New Right is launching what legal scholars see as a more insidious constitutional challenge to judicial authority. The bills on busing, abortion and school prayer all seek to limit the authority of the federal courts to rule on these issues...
...Helms (R.N.C.)--would dramatically curtail the Court in dealing with social issues. If those efforts succeed, the forces of the New Right would be given free reign to roll back many of the civil liberties gains of the last 20 years, among them Court decisions legalizing abortion, limiting school prayer and setting forth stringent requirements for the application of the death penalty...
...opportunism of method with seeming consistency of aim. Reagan has thus far stuck to his guns and has dispelled many doubts with his adroit sense of humor. He remains, in most respects the same politician who appealed to the Republican convention to bow its collective head in prayer, and his policies will require an extraordinary and unlikely collective act of faith. The Democrats and the media, however, have been unable to expose the crudeness of Reagan's means or the injustice of his ends...