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Wednesday, September 10, 2003


What's the connection?
In an essay by Joshua Siskin that Dean Esmay posted, we read of the damage that banning school-sponsored prayer has done to America:

Shortly after the Supreme Court banned public school prayer, John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The U.S. became deeply involved in a winless war in Vietnam that ultimately took 58,000 American lives. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were assassinated. In every American city, what was once relatively benign juvenile delinquency became lethal gang activity.
So if school-sponsored prayer had not been banned, Lee Harvey Oswald would have taken his Mannlicher-Carcano rifle and gone deer hunting that day instead of climbing to the seventh floor of the Texas Book Depository to shoot the president.

JFK's brother and MLK would not have died, either. The Vietnam War? Fought because nine justices banned school prayer.

This is a really bad essay, chockablock full of non-sequiturs like these.

by Donald Sensing, 9/10/2003 04:18:35 PM. Permalink |  





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