Ernest Istook: “I wish I could tell my colleague that he is incorrect; but, unfortunately, he is correct. The high school, I believe…”

“I wish I could tell my colleague that he is incorrect; but, unfortunately, he is correct. The high school, I believe, was Ball High School in Galveston, Texas. I read the transcript of the judge's remarks because of an appellate decision, which is still subject to the Supreme Court's changing. But at that time, because of an appellate decision, he felt that he had to honor their request to let them have a prayer at graduation, but he started putting limitations on it saying, if anyone mentions Jesus, I will have the U.S. marshal there to arrest them. So he was telling them, you know, I am going to tell you how to pray. And, unfortunately, most of the court decisions, including the U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1992, said we should not have prayers at graduation. That was the Lever v. Weisman case, which came out of Rhode Island. So the gentleman is correct that they are saying we should not have prayers at graduation. They are suing West Virginia now over prayers at football games. There are other lawsuits going on. There are still some schools which, frankly, have students practicing civil disobedience, that they are having prayers during school instructional hours, basically because the ACLU has not gotten around to suing them yet.”