Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is his "human life bill," an anti-abortion measure that would statutorily establish the beginning of human life at conception, and so could make abortion prosecuted as murder. In January, hearings may begin on a Helms proposal to abolish Supreme Court jurisdiction over school prayer cases. Another Helms measure, the one with the best chance of passage...
...crusade in which Helms and other right-wing social activists are pressing to remake the nation in their own image. Helms' America would be a land where certain stern Christian principles prevail and free enterprise is enshrined, where abortion is outlawed, classrooms ring with the sound of children at prayer and Darwin is just a theorist, where school buses rust quietly in their garages, and sex and violence are banished from television screens and library shelves, where men are men and women know their place, which is in the home.* As America rides the cusp of a Reagan-inspired reversion...
...housewife). The family led a cozy, righteous life that makes sampler platitudes seem profound. The father, remembers a friend, "was courteous but firm as a rock. People knew he meant business. Young Jesse didn't argue with him." On Wednesday night the Helmses were always at First Baptist Church prayer meeting, and on Sunday morning at services. Fundamentalism perked all over North Carolina after World War I. Churchgoers quickened their step. Jesse's friend Gilmer Clontz remembers: "Everybody went to church. That was the social activity...
...SCHOOL PRAYER. Helms has reintroduced a bill banning Supreme Court review of cases involving prayer in public schools, and a Senate Judiciary subcommittee has scheduled hearings on it for next January or February. But Hatch has scheduled competing hearings on a plan of his own to restrict the powers of lower courts, but not the Supreme Court, to rule on prayer as well as busing cases...
...receiving federal cash to "limit or prohibit the intermingling of the sexes in any sport or other school-related activity." Even Jepsen recognizes that his mishmash has no chance of passing Congress intact, so he proposes to put up seven sections for individual votes. One would, in effect, legalize prayer in public schools. The other six would provide tax incentives for people to adopt children and care for the handicapped and elderly dependents at home-which might indeed strengthen families but do nothing to further separation of the sexes or reinforce parental authority over children...