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ance should be expressed as a conflict of individual
rights, and that every conflict should be adjudicated.
The ACLU's bullying litigation is designed not to pro
tect the plaintiff (a student) but to compel others to be
have as the plaintiff prefers. A lawyer for New Jersey's
legislature argues that the law is constitutional because
it is "neutral with respect to any religious content." Hie
legislator who sponsored it says: "All we did was provide
the opportunity for contemplation," and regarding the
possibility that someone might silently pray, he says:
"Who has the right, in this day and age, to determine that
any thoughts someone has could violate the Constitution?"
An ACLU lawyer says New Jersey must "prove that
nowhere among the purposes of the law is the opportuni
ty for prayer." Opportunity? Perhaps the ACLU will
soon say that a state "establishes" religion unless its
schools make contemplation impossible for even a minute.
The authors of the "establishment" clause want.ed to
guarantee that government action would be impartial
among religions. They did not intend to require that it
be neutral between religion and secularism. Still less did
they intend what the Supreme Court lias mandated -that
any law must have "a secular legislative purpose and
a primary effect tli3t neither advances nor inhibits
religion."
Such confusions and insincerities are produced by result-oriented
judges who labor to wring particular social
policies from broad constitutional language, and who
produce rococo rationalizations. The ACLU is a political
organization pursuing its agenda primarily through litiga
tion rather than legislation - often an authoritarian
shortcut around the democratic process, jt construes the
Constitution the way a few religious extremists construe
scripture. It is impatient with ambiguity, and defends as
a merely literal reading of the document various policies;
that bear no discernible relation to the intention of the
authors.
1 oppose "voluntary" school prayer for two reasons:
The collective speaking of words cannot be truly volun
tary, and if the words are to be inoffensively ecumenical,
they must be mere mush. But the ACLU is fanatical when
it finds silence a menace to constitutional values.
Heaven (if the ACLU's thought -police will pardon the
word) forbid, but perhaps the ACLU's real worry is this:
Getting adolescents quiet for even 60 seconds is a miracle,
and miracles can arouse religious sentiments. There are
precedents.
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Mono, IVe finally
decided where I'd like
to make my
career: State Farm!
State Farm?
Great Plowshares!
You're going to be
a soil tiller
fo-vM Living an
?kfj agrarian
lifestY'e!
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State Farm is Virgil, you're going
an insurance to be a salesman?
company. How could you?
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Mona there's more to insurance than
selling policies. Insurance is
opportunity.
State Farm is
looking for people
interested in a data
processing career. I
don't have a computer
science degree but I do
have 12 hours of data
processing courses. So
qualify!
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No wav. Mona. State
Farm is looking for men
and women witn
any degree and
12 to 15 hours
of data process
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law and
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Uh, Virgil wear a clean pair
of jeans to the interview.
For information on career opportunities ct State Farm write Ron Prewitt. Assistant Directoi; Home Office
Personnel Relations, One State Farm Plaza Bloomington, Illinois 61701 or contact your Campus Place
ment Directot or visit the State Farm Recruiter on campus February 3. 1933.
SWTE FAKM INSURANCE COMPANIES Home Offices: Eloomirvgton, E!ino:s An Equal Opportunity Employee
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