[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 155 (Friday, November 7, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H10174]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            A SCHOOL WITHOUT PRAYER IS A SCHOOL WITHOUT GOD

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, students in Alabama are skipping school 
protesting the fact that they are not allowed to pray. Think about it. 
Even though America has guns, rape, drugs, even heroin and murder in 
our schools, students are not allowed to pray. Unbelievable. A school 
without prayer is a school without God and a nation that denies prayer 
is a nation that denies God; and a nation that denies God is a nation 
that just may welcome the devil.
  Members of Congress, the Constitution may separate church and State, 
but the Founders never intended to separate God and the American 
people.
  I yield back any common sense and logic we have left.

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