Word: prayers
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...majority opinion appropriately quotes an essay written by E.B. White in 1956. Had they read the postscript he attached to the essay in 1962 when it was run again, they might well have understood their folly. Shortly after the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a New York law allowing school prayer, White wrote...
...will live on long after his tenure in office. Laws passed by a conservative Congress may be overturned in later sessions and executive orders may be rescinded by later chiefs, but a Reagan lifetime appointee to the High Court will have say on much viral matters as abortion, school prayer and affirmative action well into the next century...
...there are those who fear that the Reagan appointees may be more interested in judicial activism than restraint and will work for sweeping changes in current laws on abortion, school prayer, affirmative action and criminal rights. Says Tribe, "[Reagan] has given every reason to believe that he is sufficiently radical to put people on the court who are activist. A Reagan Court would have little respect for precedence...
...nation's eyes will also be fixed on the Court when it hears an upcoming case on the constitutionality of an Alabama law allowing schools to set aside a few moments for silence or voluntary prayer. Should the Reagan Administration's noticeable laxness in maintaining the separation of church and state infect the Court, a reversal may be in the cards for the 1962 Engels vs. Vitale decision when the Burger Court banned prayer from the schools. Just last year the Court allowed a Rhode Island town to use taxpayers money to erect a creche over the opposition of civil...
Tutu's brief speech at Memorial Church was part of an hour-long service, which included prayer, singing by Harvard's Kuumba Singers, and remarks by S. Allen Counter, the director of the Foundation, and Peter S. Gomes, the minister of Memorial Church...