Texas Jaycees President on School Prayer Issue
Texas Jaycees President on School Prayer Issue
On Preview Cassette 210171 B MS President of the Texas Jaycees (Texas Junior Chamber of Commerce) --balding middle-aged white male wearing suit-- sitting in office speaking to camera about newspaper article written by a Mrs. O Hare regarding the Texas Jaycees and School Prayer: "I think Mrs. O Hare has underestimated the ability of the members of the Texas Jaycees, in particular when something having to do with our nation or our basic national belief or the basic tenets of the Jaycee creed are concerned. We re very proud of our beliefs. We re very avid in seeing that this sort of thing is kept in the American system." The man is asked for other comments about the article. "She did comment that it didn t make a bit of difference whether we sent the letters to NASA or not, but it didn t affect the court case. As President of the Texas Jaycees, I am fully prepared to take our 300,000 letters to the Chambers of the Supreme Court, if necessary, or to the Congress of the United States or to the President himself to show that the vast majority of the people in Texas and in America do want to keep prayer as a public entity." {Seems to refer to well-known atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair.)