Word: humanisme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The First Amendment bans any governmental "establishment of religion." So, to avoid objections from school boards, textbook publishers have often 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...
The case grew indirectly out of a 1982 suit in which Hand upheld two Alabama laws promoting prayers in public schools. When his ruling was reversed on appeal, an undaunted Hand accommodatingly allowed a group of parents and teachers who had intervened as defendants in the prayer dispute to proceed...
Even so, in the later 1950s and early '60s, Klein won a following among younger photographers, and his books devoted to Rome, Tokyo and Moscow all were published in the U.S. The vastly popular "Family of Man" photo show at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1955 had...
Two Cornell professors added their voices to the debate on the constitutionality of secular humanism and testified on behalf of fundamentalist parents in Alabama.
"Secular humanism addresses a similar range of questions and plays a similar role as religion does," Strike said. "If moral issues are going to be discussed in school, you have to teach religious and secular views."