Religious meetings in U.S. schools
NZPA-ReuterSanta Barbara President Reagan has signed legislation allowing student religious groups to hold meetings in government schools. The new law was a compromise with Congress which had refused to agree to Mr Reagan’s original proposal to allow voluntary prayer in schools. Critics contended this would violate the separation of Church and State enshrined in the Constitution. In a weekly radio broadcast to the nation, Mr Reagan said the so-called equal access legislation would give religious groups the same freedom as other student bodies to meet in public high schools outside school hours. .
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Press, 15 August 1984, Page 6
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