Congress and student piety
The bill would unleash "forces likely to inflict critical damage on public education," maintained Democratic Representative Don Edwards of California. Fellow Democrat Bob Edgar of Pennsylvania, a United Methodist minister, urged that religious education be kept out of schools. Overriding such objections, the House last week passed, 337 to 77, a measure guaranteeing students the right to organize voluntary religious gatherings in public high schools, outside class hours, on the same basis as nonreligious groups.
The so-called equal-access measure, already passed by the Senate, goes to President Reagan, who...
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