Political Quotes

“I want to add my voice as one who has opposed most of the school prayer amendments, either statutory or constitutional, that we have had in the past, in support of this. A little bit of background and history as to school prayer in this country is worthwhile at this stage. When we had the first Supreme Court decisions 30 years or so ago limiting school prayer, there were some interesting studies done as to what geographic areas of the country prayed and did not. It was interesting. It was not a uniform breakdown. Heavily in the South it was common to have prayers in public schools. In some cases they were a common prayer each day. In some cases, it was a different prayer each day. In some cases, they were picked by the teachers; in some cases, by the school boards. But it was heavily in the South, and you found it in urban public schools that were heavily Catholic. They were basically a geographic prayer that represented the predominant religion in the area.”