Word: pushed
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SHAMELESS political posturing is nothing new in an election year, but when God is allegedly on your side, politicians are unabashed about whoring for electoral points. Just ask President Reagan, whose current push for a Constitutional amendment permitting officially sanctioned prayer in public schools is particularly disgraceful...
Reagan's push for a prayer amendment may reflect longstanding conviction, but its timing and strategy at least have been heavily influenced by electoral calculation. Fundamentalist and Evangelical Protestants contributed many ballots to Reagan's 1980 sweep. But some have been grumbling that the President has done little to advance the so-called social issues that concern them most, like antiabortion legislation. Some months ago, White House strategists decided that the outset of the presidential campaign was the right time to placate this "core constituency" and that school prayer was the issue to stress in doing so. Explains...
Even if Reagan's advocacy should help push a school-prayer amendment through Congress, however, years could be required before it could amass enough state ratifications to take effect, if indeed it ever did. At least until then, the deciding voice in church-state relations will continue to be that of the Supreme Court. But the accent in the court's voice seems to be changing too, as evidenced by the praise showered on last week's crèche decision by some of the conservative religious groups that have long seen the court as their special...
...surprised as record-company executives (who are mostly white) when the album started burning its way into the country's collective musical consciousness. The fine points of what Thriller might have been, and was not, seemed petty to the audiences (mostly young) who gave the record its initial push, who hip-hopped to it in clubs and break-danced to it in the streets this past summer. The message is obvious anyway: soul is for sharing, not segregating...
Richardson outlined the issues which he will push during his campaign for the Republican nomination, including nuclear arms reduction, environmental protection and reviving American industry...