[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 81 (Friday, June 19, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H4842]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        BEAM ME UP--TEACHERS IN AMERICA CANNOT EVEN MENTION 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, Mildred Rosario, a sixth grade teacher in 
the Bronx, was fired. Mildred was fired for attempting to comfort her 
students over the drowning loss of a fellow classmate by simply saying 
he was in heaven.
  Mildred was fired for saying, I quote, he was in heaven.
  Unbelievable.
  In America teachers can pass out condoms in school. Teachers can pass 
out needles. Teachers can even have forums and discussions on devil 
worship. But in America teachers cannot even mention God.
  Beam me up.
  A Nation that can discuss devil worship in our schools but cannot 
even mention God is a Nation that has lost both its sense of values and 
its sense of common sense.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back any problems we have in our schools.

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