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Cliff Stearns: we know, however, that promoting values that are shared by mainstream Americans, such as the Ten Commandments or the…

On the recordMarch 24, 1994
we know, however, that promoting values that are shared by mainstream Americans, such as the Ten Commandments or the Golden Rule, cannot even be done in our public schools, yet we are distributing material like this. At the local level, some are making every effort to force the homosexual agenda into the normal school curriculum, it seems clear to me, particularly in light of the constitutional prayer amendment that we talked about earlier. Therefore, I ask my colleagues to support real education on real academic subjects, and urge my colleagues to vote yes on the Hancock amendment, and no on the Unsoeld substitute.
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Cliff Stearns
Florida

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Addressing education policy and curriculum content in public schools.

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