Let s play. Court rules that prayers cannot be said in public schools. The Supreme Court requires schools to remove the Ten Commandments from their halls. At the heart of liberty is the right to define one s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe and of the mystery of human life. Beliefs about these matters could not define the attributes of personhood were they formed under compulsion of the state.
Relative truth becomes the law of the land.
The U.S. Senate fails to override President Clinton s veto of a ban on partial-birth abortion. A teenage girl delivered a child in a Delaware motel, then she and her boyfriend allegedly beat the child to death, placed it in a plastic bag and dropped it in a dumpster. Three students killed and five wounded at a high school in West Paducah, Kentucky. One student killed at a high school in Edinboro, Pennsylvania. One student killed at a high school in Fayetteville, Tennessee.