Topics in the News: School Prayer
Kamala Harris on Principles & Values
: Oct 23, 2024
I believe that your faith is a verb: you live your faith
Q: I read that one of the first phone calls you made after President Biden announced that he was dropping out was to your pastor. And I'm wondering if you could say what that conversation was like.HARRIS: My pastor, Reverend Dr. Amos C. Brown of
Third Baptist Church. It was an extraordinary day that Sunday when the president called me, and I instinctively understood the gravity of the moment. I just called him--I needed that spiritual kind of connection, I needed that advice, I needed a prayer.
Q: Do you pray every day?
HARRIS: I do pray every day, sometimes twice a day. We grew up [attending] a little neighborhood church in Oakland, 23rd Avenue Church of God. And I was raised to believe in a loving God, to believe that your faith is a
verb, you know? You live your faith and that the way that one should do that is your life's work should be to think about how you can serve in a way that is uplifting other people. And that guides a lot of how I think about my work and what is important.
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Source: CNN Town Hall: interviews of 2024 presidential candidates
Ron DeSantis on Principles & Values
: Jun 14, 2021
Compels schools to have moment of silence for prayer
DeSantis visited a Jewish temple to denounce anti-Semitism and stand with Israel, as the governor cloaked himself in religion while signing a bill into law that would require public schools in his state to set aside at least one minute of silence for
children to meditate or pray. [It] makes Florida one of at least 15 states that would compel schools to hold moments of silence at public schools. The state had already been among roughly 18 other states that gave schools the option to do so.
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Source: Associated Press on 2022 Florida Gubernatorial race
Kanye West on Education
: Oct 9, 2020
Restore prayer in the classroom
Restore faith and revive our Constitutional commitment to freedom of religion and the free exercise of one's faith, demonstrated by restoring prayer in the classroom including spiritual foundations.
We will not hide the truth from our children, but will declare to the next generation His praises and wonder. -- Psalm 78:4
Support faith-based groups to provide vital local services, giving communities a shared purpose in government.
We will provide ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works -- Hebrews 10:24
Creativity and the Arts can be an important source of innovation and development of other national strengths and resources.
He has given them skill in all kinds of work done. -- Exodus 35:35
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Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website kanye2020.country
Mike Pence on Abortion
: Sep 22, 2020
Roe v. Wade worst Supreme Court decision since Dred Scott
According to Pence's comments at a National March for Life rally, "'It is the 22nd of January again. On this cold anniversary of the worst Supreme Court decision since Dred Scott, all across this land, because of the prayers and compassion of every one
of you, springtime is breaking forth in the battle between choice and life.'" [Press Release--Office of Rep. Pence, 1/22/07]"Pence also touted his policies on abortion, bringing up the legislation he signed in 2013 that banned insurance coverage for
most abortion procedures. 'Life is winning in Indiana, because of the efforts of all of you,' Pence said. 'Life is winning in this state - I truly believe - because compassion is overcoming convenience. Life is defeating despair.'"
[Indianapolis Star, 9/19/14]
"Pence also backs a constitutional amendment to ban abortion, saying he is against the procedure in all cases --including rape and incest -- except when the life of the mother is at stake." [Washington Post, 3/22/05]
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Source: Trump Research Book on Mike Pence
Kanye West on Education
: Jul 8, 2020
Reinstate the fear and love of God in all schools
Reinstate in God's state, in God's country, the fear and love of God in all schools and organizations and you chill the fear and love of everything else. So that was a plan by the Devil to have our kids committing suicide at an all-time high by removing
God, to have murders in Chicago at an all-time high because the human beings working for the Devil removed God and prayer from the schools. That means more drugs, more murders, more suicide.
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Source: Forbes Magazine on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Donald Trump on Education
: Feb 4, 2020
Constitutional right to pray in public schools
My Administration is also defending religious liberty, and that includes the Constitutional right to pray in public schools. In America, we do not punish prayer. We do not tear down crosses. We do not ban symbols of faith.
We do not muzzle preachers and pastors. In America, we celebrate faith. We cherish religion. We lift our voices in prayer, and we raise our sights to the Glory of God!
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Source: 2020 State of the Union address to Congress
Mike Pence on Principles & Values
: Aug 31, 2018
When criticized about Jesus, I breath a prayer of praise
Vice President Mike Pence turned to the Bible when asked recently what he makes of a new critical biography that calls him as a "Christian supremacist." "The Bible says count it all joy when you endure trials of many kinds," Pence told the Christian
Broadcasting Network. "Any time I'm criticized for my belief in Jesus Christ, I just breath a prayer of praise."In "The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence," that came out this week, authors
Michael D'Antonio and Peter Eisner cast Pence's background--congressman, Indiana governor, Trump VP--in a harsh light, arguing that "the most successful Christian supremacist in American history" is already functioning as a "kind of replacement
president" and is preparing to "fashion a nation more pleasing to his god and corporate sponsors."
Pence has long described himself as a "Christian, a conservative and a Republican--in that order."
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Source: USA Today on 2018 Trump Administration
Donald Trump on Principles & Values
: Feb 3, 2018
Respects evangelical leaders on prayer and on policy
His respect for the clergy and evangelical leaders is apparent. He not only values their prayers and spiritual counsel in private, But he also respects their public policy knowledge on the issues of the day as well.
His evangelical advisory board is concrete evidence of that. Michelle Bachmann, the former Minnesota congresswoman and 2012 presidential candidate, is part of that select group of evangelicals around the president who applaud how he is leaning
into them. "For too long Christians have been excluded from the table in decision making in Washington DC," Bachmann said. "They (Trump and Pence) do not shy away, nor are they ashamed with being associated with evangelical Christians.
In fact, they take the advice, they do listen to the advice of the evangelical Christians."
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Source: The Faith of Donald J. Trump, by Brody & Lamb, p.274-275
Asa Hutchinson on Education
: Sep 28, 2014
Post the Ten Commandments in public school buildings
Question topic: Efforts to bring Islamic law (shariah) to America do not pose a threat to our country and its Constitution.Hutchinson: Strongly Disagree.
Question topic: Judeo-Christian values established a framework of morality which permitted our system of limited government.
Hutchinson: Strongly Agree.
Question topic: The Ten Commandments should not be displayed in public school buildings.
Hutchinson: Strongly Disagree.
Question topic: Religious freedom is our most foundational freedom and deserves added protection in our state and federal constitutions.
Hutchinson: Agree
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Source: Faith2Action iVoterGuide on 2013 Arkansas Governor campaign
Jill Stein on Education
: Dec 21, 2011
Opposes teacher-led prayer in public schools
Q: What do you think about teacher-led prayer in public schools? A: I oppose it.
Q: Is that a federal issue or should it be left to the states?
A: The separation of church and state is inherently a federal issue.
It's hard to duck that. That is part of our Constitution. To favor one religion is to inherently favor the others. Government needs to be neutral in order to respect everyone's religion.
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Source: 2011 OnTheIssues interview with Jill Stein
Joe Biden on Principles & Values
: Aug 19, 2007
Prayer gives you strength, but doesn't prevent crises
Q: Do you believe that, through the power of prayer, disasters like Hurricane Katrina could have been prevented?A: My mom has an expression. She says that, "God sends no cross you're unable to bear."
The time to pray is when you're told, as I was, that my wife and daughter are dead, to have the courage to be able to bear the cross. Pray that God can give you the strength to deal with what everyone is faced with in their life, serious crosses to bear.
The answer to the question is, no, all the prayer in the world will not stop a hurricane.
But prayer will give you the courage to be able to respond to the devastation that's caused in your life and with others to deal with the devastation.
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Source: 2007 Democratic primary debate on "This Week"
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