Word: laubach
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...FIRST English ladies and gentlemen to arrive in Indian country were not overly burdened with the urge to keep church and state separate. John H. Laubach, in his book, School Prayers: Congress, the Courts and the Public, writes: "The Puritan settlement . . . of Massachusetts Bay . . . established under Governor Winthrop . . . in the seventeenth century sought to join the cross and the sword in founding a new Israel, following the Calvinist model." In 1639, the General Court of Massachusetts summoned Ann Hutchinson, charging that she allowed religiously unorthodox people to meet in her home and air their unseemly doctrines. Part of the transcript...
Church-state separation as embodied in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was not, however, so thorough as we may tend to think. National religious and church establishment was thereby prohibited but state churches and state religious existed at that time. From the cited Laubach: "As Professor Wilbur Katz has pointed out, 'It seems undeniable that the First Amendment operated and was intended to operate, to protect from Congressional interference the varying state policies of church establishment.' The Amendment forbade Congress to disestablish as well as to establish religion...
Died. Frank Laubach, 85, missionary whose "each one teach one" educational technique helped 100 million people learn to read in Asia, Africa and South America; of leukemia; in Syracuse...