[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 38 (Monday, March 30, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H1705]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          THE CONSTITUTION NEVER INTENDED TO BAN SCHOOL PRAYER

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, America is still in shock. Two boys, age 
11 and 13, gunned down four young students in a middle school in 
Arkansas, and the experts are asking what happened to parents? What 
happened to values? What happened to our schools?
  Schools are overrun with drugs, violence, guns, rape, murder, and now 
even mass murder. It seems America's schools have everything, Congress, 
everything except prayer. Maybe the so-called experts might finally 
realize that a nation that denies God in our schools is a nation that 
encourages the devil in our schools. The Constitution never, never 
intended to ban school prayer and never intended to separate God and 
the American people. Think about it.

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