"Surely the ghosts of Dirksen, Taft, Ike, Rockefeller and the historic pillars of the GOP are sad at the sight of today's theocrats posing as legislators."
Preach on, bruther!
"On March 22, 1966, Dirksen introduced a Constitutional amendment that would permit public school administrators to provide for organized prayer by students."
Everett Dirksen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirksen
You really know your political history! LOL
Of course he did and he knew it had zero chance of passage. He was otherwise a fiscal conservative and had no truck with the likes of the party hegemons of today.