[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 71 (Thursday, June 4, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H4069]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                SUPPORT THE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AMENDMENT

  (Mr. THUNE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. THUNE. Mr. Speaker, there are people out there who are afraid of 
the Religious Freedom Amendment. They are afraid that it goes too far.
  But let me just ask my colleagues this: Is it not going too far to 
ban prayer at high school graduations when guns and violence have 
become all too common in our schools?
  Is it not going too far to ban nativity scenes and menorahs in public 
places and replace them with a Santa Claus on every street corner? And 
then we wonder why Christmas has become so commercialized.
  Is it not going too far to ban the Ten Commandments from our schools 
and replace them with the distribution of free condoms instead?
  Things have already gone too far, way too far. It is time to bring 
the separation of church and state back from the fringe of extremist 
interpretation. It is time to bring back common sense.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support the Religious Freedom 
Amendment.

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