Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Curry didn't have a prayer," Boutilier said. "We pretty much scored at will...
...club makes itself felt in races all across the country. Dedicated to the defeat of liberals, it issued tens of thousands of mailings to document the voting records of Democratic Senators on such issues as prayer in schools, abortion and sex education. Some of the letters draw angry fire. When one mailing in Ohio charged that Senator John Glenn's vote on the liberalization of the Hatch Act was intended to turn the Government over to labor unions, Glenn angrily confronted Helms and demanded the messages be stopped. Helms apologized, told Glenn he was unaware that his signature...
...when President Reagan was elected]," says Siljander. "My support comes from morally concerned citizens who are sick of the situation in this country." Siljander pledges to battle the Equal Rights Amendment, pornography, abortion, school busing and "big spending." He will champion the neutron bomb, the MX missile and prayer in public schools...
...former prefabricated-house salesman and state legislator, Siljander made his mark by mixing politics and religion. He drew money and manpower from right-to-lifers and support from the Moral Majority-though emphasizing he was not that group's candidate-and spoke on school prayer and "the Christian's role in American government." Rodebush complained that his rivals, including two conservative candidates, had their campaign literature handed out in church bulletins...
...James is no longer accurate enough. It was translated from relatively late medieval manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek, the best available then, but 20th century research has turned up texts that are as many as 1,000 years closer to the originals. The ending to the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6: 13, for instance, beginning with "for thine is the kingdom." is not in the earliest manuscripts...