Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...respond to Jerry Falwell and his followers is not to discourage moral discussion, but rather to foster more intelligent debate--"not less moralizing, but better moralizing," as Will put it. But Will himself offered the best argument to counter his contention that government should impose moral standards. In discussing prayer in public schools, he said that while he found nothing wrong with it, he opposed it on the grounds that it was "too divisive." In a country as diverse culturally and religiously as the United States, any set code of morals would also be divisive...
...fields and attending the village kuttab, an Islamic school where he learned to read and write and studied the Koran. It was the beginning of the lifelong religious faith that, in later years, left the familiar Muslim mark on his forehead from touching the floor in frequent prayer...
...what they were. When Ichallenged him to name a single individual who had accused me of a crime, he said, "I will introduce you to as many as you want." And he did. A few days later he brought me in manacles to a mass prayer service in the jail courtyard. He then asked the congregation to look me over to see if anyone recognized me. More than a dozen men came forward, rattled off my name and address and declared they had seen me kill Islamic Guards and innocent people during anti-Khomeini demonstrations. When I asked...
What started the anticourt drive was conservative anger at federal court opinions that, among other things, legalized abortion, outlawed school prayer and supported the use of busing to achieve desegregation. Even before those rulings were handed down, conservative wrath had been aroused by the federal judiciary's strong protection of the rights of defendants and its uncertain approach to pornography. And conservatives have never been happy about the modern judiciary's penchant for the sort of activism that has prompted some federal judges, like Frank Johnson of Alabama, to take over the administration of prisons or busing programs...
...court-stripping bills before it. Unfortunately, there are also grounds for pessimism. There is, above all, the fact that Congress now is clearly more conservative than in 1979, when the Senate did pass a bill that would have taken away federal court jurisdiction over the issue of school prayer; the House killed the bill. Political observers suspect that the New Right can get at least some of its measures through the Senate again. But this time around it is less certain, given the new conservative atmosphere, that opponents could vote down the measures in the House. The issue will possibly...