[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 37 (Wednesday, March 29, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H1482]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         PRAYER IN OUR SCHOOLS

  (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, once again, the Supreme Court is 
considering a school prayer issue.
  Beam me up. The founders are rolling over in their graves. The 
founders never intended to separate God from our schools; the founders 
simply intended to ensure that there would not be one, one State-
sponsored religion, period. My colleagues know it, I know it, and the 
American people know it. The truth is, an America without prayer is an 
America without God, and a school without prayer is a school without 
God.
  I yield back the utter stupidity of the America political system that 
continues to rationalize, debate, and deny the importance of God and 
why our founders placed it in our Constitution.

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