Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democrats, too, are playing the game. They are acutely aware that their previous votes against a constitutional amendment to permit spoken prayers in public schools hurt them among Fundamentalist religious groups, particularly in the South, where the presidential election could be decided. Thus when Senate Republicans proposed a bill that would permit high school students to hold religious meetings before or after normal class hours if other student groups were granted similar use of school facilities, the Democrats voted overwhelmingly for it (see box). They were also quick to approve a House Republican proposal to require schools to permit "silent...
...members of the Northeast Kingdom Community Church in tiny Island Pond, Vt. (est. pop. 1,200), corporal punishment of children is part of their Fundamentalist creed. But to their neighbors, it looked like child abuse. There were reports from former church members that babies less than six months old were hit with wooden rods. One 13-year-old girl was said to have been beaten for eight hours, until her body was covered with welts, as punishment for telling a lie. Said Linda Schneider, a former church member: "A child would cry, and they would beat him with...
King and his associates, out on bail, are angry. Said School Lawyer Oren Briggs, oblivious to the irony: "I wouldn't treat a dog like they've treated us." Why were children beaten? King, a Fundamentalist, referred to Proverbs 22: 15: "Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him." He decided on his own that plastic pipe was what the Scripture intended. Michael, 11, did not see it that way. "They didn't have the true word of God there," he said...
Jailing Moon in June? When the Rev. Sun Myung Moon was convicted of filing false income tax returns in 1982, he was among the most criticized and reviled religious leaders in America. Nonetheless, a variety of national religious groups, ranging from liberal Protestant to fundamentalist, joined in to give moral support to his defense. Reason: they maintained that the Government had no right to interfere in the internal financial operations of Moon's church, which sanctioned his practice of holding in his own name $1.7 million, among other church assets, and using some of the money for personal purposes...
When Texas talks, textbook publishers tend to listen. As one of the largest purchasers of school textbooks ($65 million this year), the state has regularly exerted a strong influence on the content of books used by schools across the country. After the Texas board of education accommodated Fundamentalist Christians in 1974 by requiring that evolution be taught as "only one of several explanations" of the origins of mankind, some publishers began to alter their texts to make them more widely acceptable. For instance, in the 1981 high school biology book published by Laidlaw Bros., a division of Doubleday, the word...