On the recordMay 7, 1998
Free speech does not give someone the ability to incite people to engage in violent acts or to overthrow of the government. Yet, the First Amendment says simply that we have free speech, that Congress shall not abridge free speech. Those things are not considered abridgements. So, too, when you say the people, under the Religious Freedom Amendment, have the right to pray, it does not mean that a child has the ability to interrupt a class whenever they may want to because they say, I can only interrupt regardless of the time or place or circumstance to offer a prayer. You have the same reasonable requirements to keep things orderly that are understood as the courts have clearly held in a multitude of decisions that relate to public schools. I do not think we want to teach our kids that and certainly the Religious Freedom Amendment would not do that.
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