Former South Carolina GOP Leader: Lack of Daily Prayers to Blame for School Violence
Because a moment of silence will do more than gun control or additional security apparently:
The former head of the Florence County Republican Party in South Carolina thinks the lack of daily prayers is to blame for school violence.
“Since the time that prayer has been tackled, you’ll see that we don’t have the discipline, you don’t have the respect, you have more violence and I think and many of us believe that that correlates directly with not having that little bit of morality boost in the morning,” former Florence GOP Chair Bill Pickle told WBTW last week.
South Carolina lawmakers have proposed a bill that would require teachers to hold a moment of silence at the beginning of each school day, during which students would be allowed to pray. Students who didn’t wish to be a part of the daily prayer sessions would be allowed to leave the classroom.
Pickle said there was a “grassroots effort to get prayer back in school” and predicted that daily prayers would eventually be allowed.
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