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From: lew@ihuxr.UUCP (Lew Mammel, Jr.)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.politics
Subject: Sympathy for the Devil
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Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 17:40:54 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  7 17:40:54 1984
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I am opposed to any Constitutional Amendment for the purpose of allowing
school prayer. However, I agree with Pat Boone and all the rest of the red
baiting, right wing yahoos that the Constitution was never meant to
proscribe this kind of activity, and it is a travesty that it has been
construed to do so.  I disagree with Lowell Weichert that the public
schools are an "arm of the government", that is the U.S. government.

I think that the rulings of the Warren court on prayer and busing
effectively established the Supreme Court as an unrepresentative
legislative body, with the federal court system as its executive branch.
This leaves the great mass of ignorant yahoos (the people) with the
Constitutional Amendment as their only recourse. If they are successful,
which they have at least some chance of being, we'll have a real case
of the chickens coming home to roost on Pandora's box.

	Lew Mammel, Jr. ihnp4!ihuxr!lew