RONALD REAGAN, AUG. 23, 1984, AT ECUMENICAL PRAYER
BREAKFAST, REUNION ARENA, DALLAS, TX, FOLLOWING
ENACTMENT OF 1984 EQUAL ACCESS BILL:
In 1962, the Supreme Court in the New York prayer case
banned the...saying of prayers. In 1963, the Court banned the reading
of the Bible in our public schools. From that point on, the courts pushed
the meaning of the ruling ever outward, so that now our children are
not allowed voluntary prayer.
We even had to pass a law - 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, for example,
would already enjoy with no opposition...
The 1962 decision opened the way to a flood of similar suits.
Once religion had been made vulnerable, a series of assaults were
made in one court after another, on one issue after another. Cases
were started to argue against tax-exempt status for churches. Suits were
brought to abolish the words “Under God” from the Pledge of
Allegiance, and to remove “In God We Trust” from public documents
and from our currency.
Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting
of the conscience...without God there is a coarsening of the society;
without God democracy will not and cannot long endure...
America needs God more than God needs America. If we
ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a
Nation gone under.
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