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Friday, Angnri 26, 1966
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LADIES’ and MEN’S HATS
(Seven Arts Feature)
In 16 years of service in the
U. S. Senate, Everett McKinley
Dirksen, according to his own
appraisal, has never undertaken
anything as important as the ven
ture he has now embarked upon.
That project has nothing to do
with ending the fighting in Viet
nam nor banishing poverty nor
defeating the political opposition.
The Illinois Senator wants to
fudge over the First Amendment
in order to get prayers back in
the public schools.
“I do not intend to let nine
men (the Supreme Court jus
tices) tell 190 million Americans,
including children, where and
when they oan say their prayers,”
the Senator has announced.
Sounds strange because up to
now, many of us had the impres
sion that the Supreme Court, in
its 1962 opinion, was trying to
see to it that no branch of the
government, including the Su
preme Court itself and the hun
dreds of public school systems
across the land, would get en
meshed in the sensitive issue of
prayer.
It can’t be that Senator Dirk
sen has failed to read the Court’s
prayer decisions. But it may be
that pressure upon him from the
John Birch society and like-
minded groups is such that he
has decided to try to close out
his career in a quixotic effort to
oblige those who feel that this
country should have a consensus
religion and homogenized public
prayer services. New York Con
gressman Frank J. Becker staked
his all on getting through the
kind of amendment Senator
Dirksen is now ballyhooing. For
tunately, the Becker Amendment
failed.
The Dirksen proposal sounds
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innocent: ‘‘Nothing contained in
this Constitution shall prohibit
the authority administering any
school, school system, educational
institution or other public build
ing supported in whole or in part
through the expenditure of pub
lic funds from providing for or
permitting the voluntary partici
pation by students or others in
prayer. Nothing contained in this
article shall authorize any such
authority to prescribe the form
or content of any prayer.”
Armed with this amendment,
the public school prayer propon
ents can move in and get the kind
of school-conducted devotional
ceremonies they wish to obtain.
All who cherish the First
Amendment and are apprehen
sive when anybody of Senator
Dirksen’s prestige considers tam
pering with that keystone of our
liberties should be grateful to the
Central Conference of American
Rabbis for urging defeat of the
Dirksen amendment. “Religion
abdicates its responsibility when
it imposes on the institutions of
the state the obligation to con
duct religious exercises,” the re
cently passed CCAR resolution
states, “and in a pluralistic so
ciety, the state assumes unwar
ranted religious authority when
it conducts such religious exer
cises.”
Again, as the National Com
munity Relations Advisory Coun
cil pointed out in a similar warn
ing, the Dirksen Amendment, like
the Becker Amendment, is based
on the erroneous concept that a
child may “voluntarily” abstain
from participation in religious
ceremonies conducted by school
authorities. Many obje c t i v e
studies of public school classroom
climate has substantiated the
logic of the claim that young
sters suffer humility and cruel,
criticism, that they become less
than public school citizens, when
they remain aloof from public
prayer exercises in a conformist
environment.
It is disheartening then to note
that nearly 50% of the men in
our Senate are inclined to give
Senator Dirksen the leverage he
needs to bring his proposal to
the Senate floor. Perhaps if he
does succeed in shaking his mea
sure out of the Senate Judiciary
sub-committee, some of the law
makers who earlier went along
with him will have healthy sec
ond thoughts. If not, it will be
necessary once more to spread
the alarm to those who cherish
freedom but remain unaware of
the Dirksen threat.
Carrying on a vendetta with
the Supreme Court in the way
Senator Dirksen is handling his
campaign may bring cheer to his
devotees, but it is a most dan
gerous experiment. Nobody, no
bloc, no pressure group, no sec
tion of the press in nearly 200
years of the life of our Bill of
Rights has been able to change
one iota or one letter of the
First Amendment. Altering that
precious covenant now would
inflict irreparable harm upon our
magna carta.
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