lew@ihuxr.UUCP (Lew Mammel, Jr.) (03/08/84)
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
neal@denelcor.UUCP (Neal Weidenhofer) (03/09/84)
************************************************************************** > ... 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. Of course the constitution was never meant to proscribe school prayer. At the time the constitution was written, the government(s) weren't in the business of running schools. Such as it was, that was done by churches and various private institutions. "Public" schools came along long after the constitution, bill of rights, and several other amendments that have been "retrofitted" to the whole concept of public, government supported and run schools. Regards, Neal Weidenhofer Denelcor, Inc. <hao|csu-cs|brl-bmd>!denelcor!neal