Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambridge public schools yesterday began observing the new law for voluntary prayer in classrooms, after the School Committee voted last week to obey...
Some teachers offered a voluntary prayer time yesterday, although several students said that their instructors ignored...
Arthur Lipkin, a teacher at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, said he plans to ignore the law because "offering the option (to pray) is tantamount to inviting it." He and about 50 other teachers have signed a petition declaring that they will not offer a prayer period in their classrooms. If any disciplinary sanctions are enacted, Lipkin said that he will face the consequences...
...School Committee at its March 4 meeting directed Superintendent of Schools William C. Lannon to draw up guidelines for implementing the prayer law. The guideliness include...
...Bush, as a Congressman, supported it). As Governor of California, Reagan signed a relatively liberal abortion law, but now says that was a mistake; he advocates a constitutional amendment forbidding all abortions except those necessary to save the lives of mothers. He proposes another amendment to permit "voluntary" school prayer: "I think we are a nation under God. I think we have too many people in this country today who are interpreting freedom of religion as freedom from religion." Marijuana is "probably the worst and most dangerous drug in America today...