[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 17 (Thursday, February 24, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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                         H.R. 1804: GOALS 2000

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                          HON. JAMES M. INHOFE

                              of oklahoma

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, February 24, 1994

  Mr. INHOFE. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Tennessee for his 
foresight in seizing upon this opportunity to address the 1963 Supreme 
Court decision that attempted to extract God from our public school 
system. This 1963 travesty may have gone unnoticed by many of the 
American people, but it did not go unnoticed by God.
  We have a very famous young Oklahoman by the name of Charles David 
Barton. David has written a number of books on the behavioral history 
of Americans. He is a Ph.D, an intellectual type, and, although he is a 
stray Christian himself, his message is not so much for Christians and 
believers as it is for nonbelievers and agnostics. His books, one of 
which is ``America: To Pray or Not To Pray,'' are filled with charts 
and graphs. He traces the behavioral history of Americans in such areas 
as teenage pregnancy, drug addictions, violent crimes, divorce, 
suicide, and other perversions. You do not have to accept his 
conclusions by faith, but by logic. These perversions chart horizontal 
for 200 years until 1963 when they shot up and off the charts. Can it 
be just a coincidence that 1963 was the year that the U.S. Supreme 
Court made their decision on school prayer?
  We spend a lot of time around here attempting to legislate youth 
morality. What Mr. Duncan is attempting to do is go back to the source. 
For our children's sake and for God's sake, support the Duncan 
amendment.

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