Missouri House Backs Right-to-Pray Amendment

February 18, 2008

Author: KIT WAGAR

Source: The Kansas City Star

http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/495344.html

The Missouri House gave preliminary approval Monday to a proposed constitutional amendment that would emphasize the right to pray in any public setting, including public schools.

The action came after more than an hour of debate over whether such an amendment would make any difference and whether the names of individual deities should be inserted into the Missouri Constitution.

At one point, lawmakers voted to insert into the constitution a citizen’s right to acknowledge “the inerrancy of the Bible.” But they deleted that reference on a subsequent vote.