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...impassiveness only seemed to encourage the crowd further. A young man in a t-shirt and tight jeans ran along side the slow-moving vehicle and shouted through an open window, "Thank you sir, I'm so proud of you sir." Another, wearing the traditional salwar kameez and prayer cap, said, "We stand behind you sir, and we are millions...
Falwell argued that "The Supreme Court was in favor of abortion but not prayer in school," as Duffy and Gibbs put it. Falwell typically prevaricated on the truth for his own purposes. The court doesn't care about school prayer as long as it is not an official activity that requires unwilling persons to endure it. Lots of praying goes on in schools across the U.S. The problem is not prayer but attempts by some Christians to control everyone else. That leads to theocracy, something the settlers of New England tried and found wanting but that Falwell seems to have...
...almost feel the rest of them hovering protectively over the proceedings in Charlotte: Eisenhower, who asked Graham on his deathbed how you can know if you're going to heaven; Johnson, who invited Graham to the White House within weeks of taking office for an encounter that included both prayer and skinnydipping in the White House pool; even Nixon's ghost, come to honor the man he'd clearly loved, and deeply wounded...
...Texas football game prayer case. The community was torn apart. The small group of parents and students who challenged the prayer were subjected to tremendous harassment. All the people involved were religious. But there were threats of shootings and cross burnings, and the minister of one of the girls who was in the case got up and berated her family from the pulpit. At the same time, I have a very eloquent interview with an engineer at DuPont who fought for the prayer. I've been to Northern Ireland, and it was a little like that: people on both sides...
...much in the short term. As far as I know, there aren't any significant establishment-clause cases due to be decided in the next couple of years that would allow the Court to, say, overrule the school prayer cases of the 1960s. But the longer term is something else. There is a body of cases moving forward. The Pledge of Allegiance case will come back to the court. There are 10 or 20 10 Commandments cases in the federal courts right now, one or more of which will go all the way. The next Presidential election will have...