THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 14, 1982 5
Jews, Christian Units Oppose Reagan's School Prayer Proposal
(Continued from Page 1)
`-'ing some 60 national and
more than 100 local groups
which had signed a state-
ment critical of the Reagan
' 'proposal.
They included the AJ-
' Congress, the National
Jewish Community Rela-
- tions Advisory Council,
the Synagogue Council of
America, the National
Coalition for Public Edu-
cation and Religious Lib-
erty (PEARL), the Baptist
Joint Committee on Pub-
lic A_ffairs and the Na-
tio ' '' Council of
_Ch._hes of Christ in the
U.S.A. The statement was
:Issued by Howard
Squadron, president of
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convince our . people that day; the chairman of the
Israeli Deputy Foreign Egypt's intentions are Democratic and Republican
Minister Yehuda Ben-Meir genuine and true, that the National Committees,
made a strong plea Monday peace is for real and is for Charles Manett and
night for time to allow the good." Richard Richards, respec-
Israeli people to absorb the
This onus on Egypt was tively; and two assistant
benefits as well as the sac-
also
stressed by Sen. Secretaries of State,
rifices they have paid for
Joseph
Biden (D-Del.), Nicholas Veliotes, who
peace. But at the same time
who noted the standing heads the Bureau of Near
he stressed Israel is corn-
ovation
that Egyptian East and South Asian Af-
mitted to go through with
Ashraf fairs, and Powell Moore,
the negotiations to provide Ambassador
who is in charge of Congres-
autonomy for the Palesti- Ghorbal received when sional relations.
he
was
introduced
from
nian Arabs on the West
In addition to Biden, and
the dais. "The applause
Bank and Gaza Strip.
you received tonight had Sen. Robert Kasten (R-Wis.)
"The pressures and ten- a very very significant who spoke, the audience in-
sions are certainly prefera-
dose of hope in it," Biden eluded 21 other U.S. Sena-
tors and 41 members of the
ble to the ravages of waging
said turning to Ghorbal.
House of Representatives.
war, but they also take their
Moshe Arens declared
Biden, who is a member of
toll on the psyche of a
people," Ben-Meir, who is the Senate Foreign Rela- that the U.S. had a corn-
also a psychologist, told tions Committee, explained mon interest with Israel
some 1,000 persons at the that Americans and Israelis in maintaining an Israeli
banquet of the 23rd annual had put their "trust" i n the presence on the West
policy conference of the
"good will, honesty, integ- Bank.
"The alternative to the Is-
American Israel Public Af-
charge of housing and
raeli presence on the West
fairs Committee (AIPAC).
reservations.
Among others on the dais Bank is a PLO state in the
The official, who made
were Israeli Ambassador area," Arens said, adding
aliya to Israel from the U.S.,
Moshe Arens, who spoke at that a state controlled by
stressed that "we must con-
vince ourselves, we must a luncheon earlier in the the Palestine Liberation
Organization would be "a
mortal danger to Israel, a
grave danger to all Western
interests in the area."
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Arens charged that the
troit ZOA towards the over-
violence on the West Bank
all programs of the Zionist
is the result of a "desperate"
Organization of America."
and "last ditch" attempt by
It is the first time the Na-
the PLO to prevent Palesti-
tional Executive Commit-
nian Arabs from participat-
tee will meet in Detroit.
ing in the autonomy negoti-
Irving Laker, president of
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the ZOA-Detroit District,
Camp David peace process.
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can take God out of the
classroom or that Con-
gress can put it back in,
declared Gary Ross, of
the Seventh Day Adven-
tists.
Mary Cooper, of the Na-
tional Council of Churches,
stressed that any child is
free to pray silently now
whenever he or she wants to
in school. She and others
stressed that they did not
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object to prayer but to or-
ganized praying in the
classroom. The place for this
type of prayer is in the home
or the church and syna-
gogue, they stressed.
Charles Bergstrom, of the
Lutheran Council, said;
Speakers at the press "This is not a Christian na-
conference, who repre- tion and most of us would
sented the ACLU and not want it to be." He
religious organizations, faulted the President for
said the Supreme Court failing to meet with repre-
in 1962 declared sentatives of mainline
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"On the other hand, in a
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offensive to many others."
First Amendment was de- itself protected and fostered
signed to prevent."
religious faith."
The statement noted that
Continuing, the state-
The joint statement "20 years of experience" ment said: "It is impossible
stressed that the separation since the Supreme Court to devise a prayer that is ac-
of church and state "pro- decision on prayer "shows ceptable to all groups and
hibits" public schools "from that those decisions have that any effort to do so
fostering religious practices not undermined America's trivializes prayer by rob-
or beliefs" and "experience religious faith. On the con- bing it of depth and mean-
teaches us that efforts to in- trary, they have stood as a ing. It is because of this
troduce religious. practices reminder and symbol of the trivialization that we are
into public schools generate freedom of conscience that convinced that daily rote re-
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