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AUGUST 11, 1984, by an 88-11 Senate vote and a 337-77 House vote, Congress passed the Equal Access Act, stating:
"It
shall be unlawful for any public secondary school which receives
Federal financial assistance and which has a limited open forum, to deny
equal access or a fair opportunity to, or discriminate against, any
students who wish to conduct a meeting within that limited open forum on
the basis of the religious, political, philosophical, or other content
of the speech at such meeting."
Regarding this, President Reagan commented August 23, 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, Texas:
"We
even had to pass a special law in the Congress just a few weeks ago to
allow student prayer groups the same access to school rooms after
classes that a Young Marxist Society...would already enjoy."
The Supreme Court upheld the Equal Access Act by a vote of 8-1 in Westside Community Schools v. Mergens, June 4, 1990:
"If
a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others,
then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion.
The
Establishment Clause does not license government to treat religion and
those who teach or practice it...as subversive of American ideals."
Ronald Reagan stated in a radio address, February 25, 1984:
"Former
Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart noted if religious exercises are
held to be impermissible activity in schools, religion is placed at an
artificial and state-created disadvantage.
Permission for such
exercises for those who want them is necessary if the schools are truly
to be neutral in the matter of religion.
And a refusal to permit
them is seen not as the realization of state neutrality, but rather as
the establishment of a religion of secularism."
U.S. District Court, Crockett v. Sorenson, W.D. Va,. 1983:
"The First Amendment was never intended to insulate our public institutions from any mention of God, the Bible or religion.
When such insulation occurs, another religion, such as secular humanism, is effectively established."
This reaffirmed what George Washington wrote to the United Baptist Churches of Virginia, May 10, 1789:
"If
I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the
Constitution framed by the Convention, where I had the honor to preside,
might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical
Society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it."
Ronald Reagan, on the National Day of Prayer, May 6, 1982, commented:
"Well-meaning Americans in the name of freedom have taken freedom away.
For the sake of religious tolerance, they've forbidden religious practice."
On
January 10, 1963, Democrat Congressman Albert S. Herlong, Jr., of
Florida, read into the Congressional Record a list of Communist goals
for America, (Vol 109, 88th Congress, 1st Session, Appendix, pp.
A34-A35), which included:
"Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the
schools on the ground that it violates the principle of 'separation of church and state'...
Discredit
American culture...Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage
promiscuity and divorce...Present homosexuality, degeneracy and
promiscuity as 'normal, natural, healthy'...
Infiltrate churches and replace revealed religion with 'social' religion...
Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a 'religious crutch'...
Control schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and
current
Communist propaganda. Soften curriculum. Get control of teachers'
associations. Put party line in textbooks... Control student
newspapers..."
Ronald Reagan told the Annual Convention of the National Religious Broadcasters, January 30, 1884:
"I
was pleased last year to proclaim 1983 the Year of the Bible. But, you
know, a group called the ACLU severely criticized me for doing that.
Well, I wear their indictment like a badge of honor."
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