March 15, 2009 7:11 AM
Reagan and school prayer
Reagan said he felt the First Amendment was being turned on its head in 1984. Today the First Amendment is used by the Left not only to keep prayer out but to keep pornography in.American Minute with Bill Federer
March 15
On MARCH 15, 1984, the Senate voted down voluntary prayer in public schools. President Reagan said:
"I am deeply disappointed that, although a majority of the Senate voted for it, the school prayer amendment fell short."
On September 25, 1982, Ronald Reagan said:
"Unfortunately, in the last two decades we've experienced an onslaught of such twisted logic that if Alice were visiting America, she might think she'd never left Wonderland.
We're told that it somehow violates the rights of others to permit students in school who desire to pray to do so.
Clearly this infringes on the freedom of those who choose to pray, the freedom taken for granted since the time of our FoundingFathers."
Reagan continued:
"To prevent those who believe in God from expressing their faith is an outrage...
The relentless drive to eliminate God from our schools...should bestopped."
Ronald Reagan said February 25, 1984:
"Sometimes I can't help but feel the First Amendment is being turned on its head."
Reagan told the Alabama Legislature, March 15, 1982:
"The First Amendment was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny."
In the ObamaNation we will see it used also to eliminate conservative talk radio. Though they had to ditch the Fairness Doctrine because the ciizenry got hip, the strategy is now to attack "the problem" of dissent from a local level.
Interesting how they only think of this kind of "fairness" in terms of evening the score with conservative radio talk show hosts, who are popular because - well, because they're popular and because liberal talk show hosts aren't. Why don't we apply the Fairness Doctrine to TV as represented by Jon Stewart and Saturday Night Live and Chris Matthews and Brian Williams and Katie Couric?
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Comments
That is why we have our kids in Catholic school. It's really making it difficult financially for us, but I feel that prayer, God, Christianity, Christmas, all of these things should be discussed in a place where our kids spend most of their waking hours. It is really a horrible shame to gap these kids of this knowledge. I feel that it is the non Christian kids who are losing out the most as they may not get any of this info at home. I met a young woman who didn't know anything about Christianity who spent her life in US public schools.
If I lived in a foreign country (which I have), I would want to know about its history, customs and culture. That includes the mainstream religions. You are on the outliers not knowing this info. I didn't speak a work of English when I came to this country, and if it weren't for the schools, I would have not known what the customs were. Now anything that has a bit of the Christian religion in it is scrubbed out. And prayer, most of us pray whether we are Christian or not. A moment of silence to pray, reflect, meditate would make anyone's day a bit calmer.
Posted by: Cath Young | March 15, 2009 6:50 PM
