Political Quotes

“it is kind of interesting, the gentleman brings up the judicial pronouncements, and they have been going on since the early 1960s with school prayer, and there has been a very serious unintended consequence. I was at a school in Michigan for a graduation. I looked at the program. It said opening prayer. I kind of looked at the superintendent and nudged him and said, You cannot do that. He kind of looked at me and laughed and said, We can here. Then I looked over at the diploma table and there were a stack of books over there. I said, What book are you handing out? He said, Well, we are handing out the Bible to all of our graduates. I had a smile on my face and said, You cannot do that here. And he kind of laughed and said, We do. What some of the court pronouncements have done, they have broken the bond between the school and the community because public schools represented local community values, not to an extreme; but when you get a pronouncement from some judge in California about what some school in Arizona or some rural school in Michigan or Illinois or Indiana can do, and that now becomes the law of the land, and the people in Indiana or Michigan or Arizona never had any problem, they look and see what book is being handed out, and for 100 years this school has been handing out a Bible at graduation, and we are not telling people what to believe or whatever. It breaks the bond.…”