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...expansive moral imagination has much to recommend it--including the endorsement of Jesus Christ. (Among the tactical advantages of Clinton's prayer breakfast was getting reporters to quote clergy quoting Scripture: "He that is without sin, let him first cast a stone.") Still, however humane a generous imagination may be, it poses a problem: Once started, where does it stop...
What's with these guys? In recent years the House Judiciary Committee has become an ideological rodeo. Its everyday agenda is heavy on such hot-button issues as late-term abortion, school prayer, gun control and affirmative action. The subject matter has done a good job of attracting true believers from both sides. "We're terribly polarized," says a staff member with a tinge of pride. "We fight like cats and dogs." Prominent Republicans with a cause include Charles Canady, father of the English-as-the-official-language bill, and Barr, an anti-gun control crusader with close ties...
...event is called See You at the Pole. According to Doug Clark, field-ministries director at its San Diego-based coordinating collective, the National Network of Youth Ministries, last Wednesday the group mobilized "more than 3 million" Christian teens in 50 states to schoolyard prayer. Witnesses and local organizers confirm that 110 showed up at Ripon High School in Ripon, Calif.; 50 at Nashua High in Nashua, N.H.; and a total of 4,871 at 63 schools in San Antonio, Texas. Clark's figures seem a bit overoptimistic, but even at half strength, the national event, which has been building...
Strictly speaking, See You is simply an annual invitation to schoolyard prayer before morning classes begin on the third Wednesday of every September. In fact, it now serves as the school-year kickoff for a rapidly swelling population of weekly campus Bible-study and prayer clubs. Clark compares it to events like the Million Man March and the Promise Keepers, but it has at least one advantage: while enjoying the thrill of a mass event, its participants remain in place and primed to act locally...
...help take the message of Christ to every school and every young person" within two years. Beacham has said that as See You spread, "we weren't even sure it was legal." It is. In 1990 the Supreme Court overwhelmingly sustained the constitutionality of a 1984 law permitting student prayer on school grounds if the prayer is not adult-led or during class hours. But the event still bothers some civil libertarians. Barry Lynn, head of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, says that "technically it is legal. But it is a fiction that this...