James Traficant: “The first Constitution allowed slavery. It treated women like property. It treated American native Indians like…”

“The first Constitution allowed slavery. It treated women like property. It treated American native Indians like buffalos. The Congress, in its wisdom, changed the wrongs of the Constitution and did so by amending it. Now the judges have determined that school prayer is prohibited under the language of the Constitution. I submit that the Founders are rolling over in their graves, because they did want to separate church and State on a denominational basis, but they never intended to separate God and the American people. This legal mumbo jumbo is absolutely ludicrous, because of the fact that school kids used to have the three R's of reading, writing, and arithmetic; today there are four R's: rape, rifle, and Ritalin. Ladies and gentlemen, there is a fourth R. It is called run. Run as in run for your life. My position is very, very simple. I believe where God is omitted, then evil will be committed. Ladies and gentlemen, why is it unconstitutional for Congress to consider the opportunity to let a local school board make that decision? The Constitution prohibits it; that is what the Supreme Court said. Fine. Change the Constitution. This is the mechanism to do it. If it is a moment of silence, fine. If it is a prayer, it should not be any denomination that is, in fact, promoted. Ladies and gentlemen, there are several things I think must be understood here. On our bills, we say 'In God We Trust.'”