Word: prays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skeptics remain unconvinced by the anti-religious liberals' influence on politics, their excessive secularization of our public schools should make them weep. Admittedly, children do have the constitutionally protected right to pray in school, individually or in groups, silently or aloud, as long as they don't disrupt classroom activities. But the wicked liberals still insist that we shouldn't be able to force them to pray. The liberals have also kept creationist pseudoscience out of our science class-rooms. Evolutionists already have the unfair advantage of scientific evidence. If we can't get creationism in, we cannot allow evolution...
...tells friends he came out "for the next generation"--to offer young gays and lesbians an example and give them some hope. In an implicit response to the "ex-gay" movement--a small group with conservative backing that claims people can change their sexuality--Huffington struggled for years to pray away or spend away or marry away his sexuality, but found it all useless...
...West'74 asked his class to observe a moment of silencefor Higginbotham at the beginning of Af-Am 10,"Introduction to Afro-American Studies." Duringthe day, members of the Black StudentsAssociation, Kuumba and the W.E.B. DuBois Societyalso received an e-mail message on Higginbotham'scondition that urged them to pray for hisrecovery...
...Moses has seen the Promised Land, God says, he will perish. Moses immediately acquiesces: "Let the Lord, source of the breath of all flesh, appoint someone [else] over the community." His later recollection in Deuteronomy, however, is "I pleaded with the Lord at that time, saying...'Let me, I pray, cross over and see the good land on the other side of the Jordan, that good hill country, and the Lebanon.' But the Lord...said to me, 'Enough! Never speak to me of this matter again...
Some do it, some don't and most don't want to hear about it. Praying for a candidate? Irked that somewhere out there someone might be praying for you? It's called religious toleration--take heed. As for those who decide to reach out and pray for someone, Dartboard must defer to Miss Manners. The separation of church and state is like seating intensely interesting dinner guests: best not to sit the two close together and risk that they become totally absorbed in each other to the detriment of the entire party...