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PFAW could not defend texts blacklisted by the Gablers at the public hearings, since state regulations allow only negative testimony and prohibit all positive comment. But the board of education will accept written rebuttals by supporters of the criticized texts. In a junior high school health text, the Gablers objected to a class discussion assignment on the concept of "worry." "It has no place being studied in the classroom," wrote the Gablers. The American Way rebuttal: "This objection is a dogmatic statement with no basis in education theory." The Gablers disapproved of an entire chapter of an eighth-grade civics...
...Nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to prohibit individual or group prayer in public schools or other public institutions. No person shall be required by the United States or by any state to participate in prayer." The President and proponents like Jerry Falwell of Moral Majority demand the change in the name of religious freedom, the same cry raised by the other side...
...Administration's handling of their call to ban busing as a method of desegregating schools. On the same day he sent his letter on school prayer to the Senate, Attorney General William French Smith notified House Judiciary Chairman Peter Rodino that careful examination of a bill designed to prohibit lower federal courts from ordering busing plans "indicates that [its provisions] are constitutional." This was also a hollow victory for the New Right: although the bill has passed the Senate, it is expected to die in the Democrat-controlled House...
...College made the change after discovering that state Laws prohibit the distribution of material for organizations not registered as non profit under the type of non profit post age Harvard uses said John Howe assistant to the dean of students...
Seeking to outlaw the operation seems as futile a gesture as the 18th amendment's attempt to prohibit the sale and manufacture of liquor Prohibition made "America safe for hypocrisy," but little else, since the laws were neither obeyed nor enforced. Prohibition violations were "naughty," but were victimless. Illegal abortions, however, can prove tragic...