[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 50 (Wednesday, April 29, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H2442]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  PUT PRAYER BACK IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL

  (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, after the Arkansas tragedy where four 
students and a teacher were killed by two youngsters, the shooting 
death of Pennsylvania teacher John Gillette has shocked America. 
Experts are confused and, they say, searching for answers. The irony is 
these same experts, with all their degrees, have one thing in common: 
most of them oppose school prayer. In fact, time and time again, they 
have employed constitutional mumbo jumbo to kill school prayer.
  They just do not get it. A school without God is a school without 
education. A school without God is a school without discipline. A 
school without God is a school without values, ladies and gentlemen. 
Maybe experts will finally get the message that a school without God is 
a playground for the demon. The Congress should allow school prayer.
  I yield back any common sense left in Washington.

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