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Prayer Issue
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Some politically active members
of the Jewish community are
claiming victory over a state res-
olution on school prayer.
Recently, the state Senate
government operations commit-
tee tabled a vote on a resolution
that would ask the U.S. Con-
gress to amend the Constitution,
allowing prayer in school.
Members of the Jewish com-
munity, including Cindy Hughey
of the Michigan Jewish Confer-
ence, testified against the reso-
lution.
Others, including representa-
tives from the Seventh Day Ad-
ventist Church, the American
Civil Liberties Union and a Unit-
ed Methodist minister, also
spoke out against it.
Sen. Philip Hoffman, a Jack-
son-area Republican, introduced
the resolution. A spokesperson
from his office said the commit-
tee did not vote because of tech-
nical changes in the language of
the resolution. With two weeks
left in the current session, the
resolution is not expected to be
revived this session.
Lawmakers also took action
on other school-prayer legisla-
tion.
In their original versions,
a handful of Senate bills would
have allowed public schools
to post or read out loud a list
of documents, without exclud-
ing any because of religious con-
tent.
They included the preamble
to the Michigan Constitution,
the Declaration of Independence
and any writing, speech, docu-
ment or proclamation of the
Founding Fathers of the United
States, some of whom were or-
dained ministers. These bills
would have allowed their ser-
mons to be read by a public-
school teacher.
Last week, the bills went from
the education committee to the
Senate floor where they were
passed in a watered-down ver-
sion.
The new versions now essen-
tially say the U.S. Constitu-
tion, the Declaration of Inde-
pendence and the Mayflower
Compact cannot be censored in
schools.
"Sen. (Ken) DeBeaussaert
(vice-chair of the education com-
mittee) and Sen. (Gary) Peters,
(both Democrats) felt the bills
weren't necessary," said Todd
Cook, Sen. Peters' legislative
aide, but to prevent censoring in
the future, the lawmakers de-
ter-mined these three documents
were most important in teach-
ing people about the U.S. gov-
ernment and its history, Mr.
Cook said. 0
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