Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site scirtp.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!rti-sel!scirtp!jimi From: jimi@scirtp.UUCP (Jim Ingram) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: School Prayer Message-ID: <531@scirtp.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 16:26:36 EST Article-I.D.: scirtp.531 Posted: Wed Oct 30 16:26:36 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Nov-85 22:01:39 EST References: <344@unc.unc.UUCP> <1408@cbsck.UUCP> Organization: SCI Systems, Research Triangle Park, NC Lines: 43 > > Sheldon Vanauken (author of "A Severe Mercy" and "Under The Mercy") > >has come up with what Southern Partisan magazine calls "the best idea yet > >to restore prayer in the public schools." > > > > Vanauken suggests that every public school in the country begin the > >day with the words "God save the United States and this honorable school", > >just as the Supreme Court begins its day with the words "God save the United > >States and this honorable court". > > > > If the practice were challenged, the court could do one of three things: > > > >(a) Rule that the practice is constitutional, since it is nearly identical > >to the practice of the Supreme Court. > > > >(b) Admit that it had been mistakenly indulging in an unconstitutional > >practice for years. > > > >invocation from a harmless piece of rhetoric into a prayer. (Which would take > >a lot of fancy judicial prestidigitation.) I don't see the connection between what a school does and what a court, Congress, or other government body does. Could the previous poster enlighten, please? This sounds like the thoughts of someone desperate to ram school prayer down innocent, helpless throats. Why do people want to do that, anyway? > > > > Cloyd Goodrum III > > (d) Invoke the words of Chief Justice Warren Burger: "We're the Supreme > Court. We can do anything we want." (Similar to option 'a' above. If the > Court does it it must be constitutional.) :-) > -- > > Paul Dubuc cbsck!pmd -- The views expressed by me are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of any other individuals or organizations. Jim Ingram {decvax, akgua, ihnp4}!mcnc!rti-sel!scirtp!jimi SCI Systems, Inc. P.O. Box 12557, RTP, NC 27709 919 549 8334