I believe it has said that a child can have a moment of silent prayer. I am not sure what it has said about a minute of oral prayer, a child doing it himself, so long as it does not disrupt the class, or if somebody says grace before meals.
The speaker is discussing the implications of a court ruling on prayer in schools.
Share
More from Robert Packwood
They can say that you cannot have compulsory prayer, you cannot have school-led prayer, you cannot have teacher-led prayer. I do not know whether or not the Court has said, if school starts at 8:15 in the morning, that at 9:30 Susie or…
The chairman says it is $4.5 trillion; $4.5 trillion in IOU's. Insurance companies do the same thing except they do not invest solely in Government bonds. They have a lot of Government bonds, and they may invest in some real estate. They…
The words ``constitutionally permitted'' are not in this amendment. What the Senator is saying is that school districts must allow prayer that is constitutional.
I understand the problem, and we all get it when we go home. In 1972, we changed Social Security and went to a readjustment basis. As a matter of fact, very few people know this. When we went to the cost-of-living adjustment, we did it in…
Other voices in this conversation
