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From: goodrum@unc.UUCP (Cloyd Goodrum)
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Subject: School Prayer
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 23:25:03 EDT
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	Sheldon Vanauken (author of "A Severe Mercy" and "Under The Mercy")
has come up with what Southern Partisan magazine calls "the best idea yet
to restore prayer in the public schools."

	Vanauken suggests that every public school in the country begin the
day with the words "God save the United States and this honorable school", 
just as the Supreme Court begins its day with the words "God save the United 
States and this honorable court". 

	If the practice were challenged, the court could do one of three things:

(a) 	Rule that the practice is constitutional, since it is nearly identical
to the practice of the Supreme Court.

(b) 	Admit that it had been mistakenly indulging in an unconstitutional
practice for years.

(c)	Rule that substituting the word "school" for "court" transforms the
invocation from a harmless piece of rhetoric into a prayer. (Which would take
a lot of fancy judicial prestidigitation.)

	Cloyd Goodrum III