[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7837]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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 MANY LIBERALS IN EDUCATION HAVE HOSTILE ATTITUDES TOWARDS PEOPLE WITH 
                      RELIGIOUSLY-INSPIRED VALUES

  (Mr. TIAHRT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIAHRT. Madam Speaker, the recent tragedy in Littleton, Colorado, 
points to an issue that has gone unaddressed for too long. Too many of 
our public schools are unsafe, and this is unacceptable.
  What kind of system is it that allows kids to quote Hitler in the 
hallway, but which would see students get hauled into the principal's 
office for quoting the bible in the classroom? The pendulum has swung 
too far to the left.
  Madam Speaker, many Americans believe that America has lost its way 
when our schools ignore the morals and the values that built this great 
Nation. But too many of the liberals in education have such a hostile 
attitude towards religion that they can not even conceive of a 
tolerant, multi-denominational religious presence in the public square 
which does not harm anyone's rights. Their caricatures of religious 
people are nothing but unfair stereotypes, and they falsely portray the 
agenda of ordinary people who think that religiously-inspired values 
are something to be proud of and something that has always made America 
great.
  There is no magic solution for the problems we face in schools, but 
it is time for the pendulum to swing the other way, back to the virtues 
and the values that built this great Nation.

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