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President Clinton pauses during his latest talk.
Clinton Speech Cheers
Separation Supporters
JAMES D. BESSER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
fter his speech on religious
freedom at a suburban
Washington high school
last week, President Bill
Clinton stopped for a chat with
Mark Pelavin, Washington rep-
resentative for the American
Jewish Congress.
It was an appropriate symbol-
ic touch; Mr. Pelavin led a task
force of religious and civil liber-
ties organizations that spent the
spring preparing a report chal-
lenging the contention of school
prayer advocates that recent
Supreme Court decisions have
turned public schools into "reli-
gion-free zones."
Last week's presidential ad-
dress was closely patterned after
that
document. Mr. Clinton's care-
fully balanced stance, Jewish
leaders hope, may help reveal the
real motives of the activists who
are pressing hard for a "religious
equality" amendment to the Con-
stitution that would make it sig-
nificantly harder to maintain the
clear church-state line that is an
essential ingredient in the secu-
rity of all religious minorities, in-
cluding Jews.
Last week's presidential ad-
dress accepted the premise that
religion is good for society as well
as individuals. Mr. Clinton has
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always favored voluntary, non-
sectarian school prayer; last
week, he laid out why he believes
the inclusion of a religious per-
spective in the schools can ben-
efit a society that has lost its
moral bearings.
At the same time, Mr. Clinton
insisted that a variety of religious
activities are already permit-
ted in the schools under current
law.
"The First Amendment does
not convert our schools into reli-
gion-free zones," he said. "If a stu-
dent is told he can't wear a
yarmulke, for example, we have
an obligation to tell the school the
law says the student can, most
definitely, wear a yarmulke to
school. If a student is told she can-
not bring a Bible to school, we
have to tell the school, no, the law
guarantees her the right to bring
the Bible to school."
But Mr. Clinton also insisted
that such permissible religious
expression needs to be carefully
limited to avoid anything that
could be construed as govern-
ment promotion of a particular
religion — a tricky constitution-
al distinction that is at the heart
of the school prayer debate.
"Our Founders understood
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