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On the recordFebruary 3, 1994
I would be inclined to, given the circumstance you mentioned, probably agree with you in that fact situation. If you had a zealous 90 percent Christian district with proselytizing kids, harassing their 10 percent, the 10 percent Jewish, harassing 10 percent Jewish classmates, my hunch would be the Court might say that you do not have a constitutional right to do that. But I am willing to leave it to the Court to determine the constitutionality. My question is this: Once the Court has determined the constitutionality, the 90 percent cannot harass the 10 percent Jewish fellow classmates, but the 90 percent can pray and the 10-percent can pray, then the school district cannot say to the 90 percent and the 10 percent, ``No you can't.''
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Robert Packwood
Republican · Oregon
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The speaker discusses the constitutional rights of students in a religiously diverse school setting.

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