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Two Cornell professors added their voices to the debate on the constitutionality of secular humanism and testified on behalf of fundamentalist parents in Alabama.
IT HAS BEEN said that the problem with the fundamentalists' argument was that it complained against un-Christian, as opposed to specifically anti-Christian education. However, the most startling argument put forth in the case is that the school system teaches its own religion, "secular humanism."
At first double-take, calling secular humanism a religion seems a contradiction in terms. Here the fundamentalists, of all people, have made "secular" and "religious" interchangeable ideas, rather than antonyms. By putting them on a par, the fundamentalists betray their real agenda: not just sheltering their religious beliefs, but building...
One of the 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...
"Our claim," says Attorney William Bradford, who is defending the school board, "is that secular humanism is not a religion, and even if it were a religion, there is no evidence it is being espoused in these texts." The common legal definition of a religion specifies belief in a superior...