Word: brevard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TRICK-OR-TREAT POLL. Card shops around Brevard County, Florida, a G.O.P. stronghold and home to the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral, are having difficulty maintaining their stocks of a Halloween card with a political tinge. BUSH WINS declares a newspaper headline on the front, while the inside * reads, "This is the scariest card I could find. Happy Halloween." A version with the headline DUKAKIS WINS is hardly selling...
...Alabama case, which also involved a group of Fundamentalist parents as plaintiffs, hinged upon a different provision of the First Amendment, the establishment clause, which undergirds church and state separation. In March, Federal Judge W. Brevard Hand ruled that 44 history, social studies and home economics books used throughout the state violated the establishment clause by promoting what he designated a religion, secular humanism. It teaches, he said, "that salvation is through one's self rather than through a deity...
...purged mention of the religious underpinnings of events like Thanksgiving or of moral values involving such matters as teenage sex and divorce. The result is a temporal outlook that critics, particularly Christian Fundamentalists, contend has become a creed of its own, secular humanism. Last week U.S. District Judge W. Brevard Hand, who has previously indicated his sympathy for such arguments, banned 45 textbooks from Alabama public schools because they unconstitutionally promote "the religion of secular humanism...
...most extraordinary features of the trial is that the presiding judge, W. Brevard Hand, has previously made his sympathies clear. Nearly four years ago, in a case that gave birth to this one, Hand challenged several landmark Supreme Court decisions with a ruling that not only authorized school prayer in Alabama schools but also stated that the First Amendment did not apply to the states in such cases. Although an appeals court reversed Hand's decision, he provided grounds for restructuring the issue so that the original plaintiff, Lawyer Ishmael Jaffree, was replaced by the 624 Evangelicals and the central...
Insults are not dead in Brevard County, Fla. I just heard a Government contractor "roast" a departing Air Force major with: "Working with the major has been like playing leapfrog with a unicorn...