It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that would restore voluntary prayer in our Nation's schools.
If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that ought to be acceptable in the United States.
Prayer in private results in boldness in public.
I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track.
The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
God knows, we don't want prayer.
I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.
Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.
There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.