Word: fundamentalistism
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...JUDGE FOUND nothing wrong with the textbooks. He found that many people, even those with more orthodox religious convictions, might find the plaintiffs' beliefs "inconsistent, illogical, incomprehensible, and unacceptable." But he also found the religious beliefs of a group of fundamentalist Christians in Tennessee to be "sincere"--that is, to warrant excusing the parents' children from having to read the local school system's text-book series...
...reading series used by 15,000 school districts, this first federal ruling to shelter school children from educational materials is a landmark not for the precedent it might set for schools across the land. Rather, it is important precisely because the ruling specifically limits its application to this particular fundamentalist group's complaint. The decision was not so much a ruling as an exception to the rule. The court seems to have abandoned its function of establishing...
Because of the incoherence of the plaintiffs' claims, the only possible evidence for their sincerity was the determination the fundamentalist parents showed pleading their case in the courtroom. This boiled down to the determination shown by representatives like parent Vicki Frost, who stood at the witness stand for hours on end detailing a hodge-podge laundry list, citing textbook examples of everything from scientific explanations of tidal waves to witchcraft and astrology to pacifism and situational ethics...
...group of Fundamentalist Christian parents, led by Vicki Frost, a mother of four, attacked the school district's choice of such books as The Diary of Anne Frank and The Wizard of Oz on the ground that the works contained references that were contrary to what the parents regarded as God's teaching. The state of Tennessee argued that parents could not pick and choose from the curriculum; if they did, their children could not remain in school. Hull disagreed, ruling that parents could withdraw their children from the reading program but allow them to receive the rest...
...Washington, D.C., law firm of Hogan andHartson is conducting the defense. Their legalfees are paid by People for the American Way andthe American Civil Liberties Union. The plaintiffsare being financed by fundamentalist preacher theRev. Pat Robertson, said Coles