Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Does not believe in school prayer...
...Does not support school prayer...
...Durkin is blunt, his opponent, Republican Warren Rudman, is downright ingenuous. The beneficiary of vigorous efforts by the National Conservative Political Action Committee, Rudman has watched his incumbent adversary crudely portrayed as a pro-busing, anti-prayer buffoon. One NCPAC leaflet has Durkin teaching a class of children--two of the children are white, with books on their neatly ordered desks. The two Black children are unflatteringly depicted; their desks are messy and bookless. John Durkin, the leaflet states, casts "anti-child" and "anti-parent" votes...
...That in prayer, in attitudes, we foster a new mood of healing and forgiveness so that we transcend not only our differences but even our grievances...
...checked a list of the 13 or 15 most important and most emotional issues that are susceptible to left-right delineation, Reagan would not have changed on a single one since 1976. The list would include the Panama Canal, abortion, gun control, SALT II, prayer in public schools, dealing with southern Africa, gay rights...