Gary Bauer in The Boston Globe


On Civil Rights: If not prayer, recite Declaration

Bauer says if schoolchildren can’t begin their day with a prayer, then they should recite their Declaration of Independence. “It would accomplish the same thing,” said Bauer. He would select the passage that begins, “We hold these truths to be self-evident..” Bauer added, “It would remind all of our students that God is the author of our liberties and that nobody can take that liberty away. And since it is in the founding documents, I don’t see how the ACLU could object.”
Source: (x-ref Education) Boston Globe, p. A20, “Political Briefs” Nov 25, 1999

On Education: If not prayer, recite Declaration

Bauer says if schoolchildren can’t begin their day with a prayer, then they should recite their Declaration of Independence. “It would accomplish the same thing,” said Bauer. He would select the passage that begins, “We hold these truths to be self-evident..” Bauer added, “It would remind all of our students that God is the author of our liberties and that nobody can take that liberty away. And since it is in the founding documents, I don’t see how the ACLU could object.”
Source: Boston Globe, p. A20, “Political Briefs” Nov 25, 1999

On Families & Children: Juvenile violence based on mass media & abortion

The killings in Colorado prove “something is wrong in America” that only a moral reawakening can fix. Bauer said the problem is simple: Too many children resort to hatred, not God, in a nation that glorifies violence in its mass media, allows “militant secularism” in its courtrooms and legalizes abortion.
Source: Boston Globe, Thursday April 22, 1999, p.A21 Apr 22, 1999

On Gun Control: Focus on our hearts, not “instruments”

An opponent of gun control, Bauer said new laws would only “focus on things and instruments instead of what happens in the hearts of our kids.” Hollywood promotes violence, he said. The justice system forbids prayer in schools. And Washington “gives us platitudes.
Source: Boston Globe, Thursday April 22, 1999, p.A21 Apr 22, 1999

On Principles & Values: Something is wrong, despite good economy

Despite the Dow Jones Industrial Average over 10,000, a growing economy and despite all of the things to our credit, you and I know there is something wrong in America, Bauer said.
Source: Boston Globe, Thursday April 22, 1999, p.A21 Apr 22, 1999

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