Walter B. Jones: “As you know, both you gentlemen know, and I am on the bill and maybe you both are, I am on the bill introduced by the…”

“As you know, both you gentlemen know, and I am on the bill and maybe you both are, I am on the bill introduced by the gentleman from Oklahoma, Ernest Istook, called the Religious Liberties Amendments, and I had this discussed many times. Why do you in Congress, when you have behind the Speaker's chair 'In God we trust,' why do you not allow our students to have voluntary prayer in school? And I was pleased to tell them that Ernest Istook, a second or third termer from the State of Oklahoma, has introduced a constitutional amendment, and that is the way it should be, to give voluntary prayer back to the States and the schools. And these people applauded in church when I told them that I was on a bill that would help, if it passes the House and the Senate and goes back to the legislatures. But people in America are ready for the clarification of our religious freedoms that the writers of the Constitution promised us, whether you are a Jew, Catholic, Protestant or Moslem.”