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Equally combustible is a Maryland high-court ruling that voided state grants for nonreligious facilities at three religious colleges. The court saw in the practice an unconstitutional "establishment of religion," thus casting grave doubt on similar federal support for church colleges and parochial schools. Even more combustible is Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Haire's challenge of tax exemption for churches, which the Maryland court unanimously rejected...
Federal and state laws have traditionally exempted church property from taxation. But now that the value of church possessions has grown to some $80 billion, professional secularists such as Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair have raised far-reaching court suits challenging these exemptions, and financially hard-pressed local governments have begun to nibble away at the limits of the churches' immunity. As a result, U.S. churches are today in the midst of an agonizing reappraisal of their traditional privileges...
...Madalyn Murray, succesful litigant in the 1963 Supreme Court case outlawing school prayer, last night debated her opposition to state aid for religious institutions with a priest and two law professors...
...attack on the U.S. tradition of granting tax exemption to church-owned property, Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair filed a widely watched suit in Maryland that no constitutional scholar can lightly dismiss. Such exemption, she argued, hikes taxes for other property owners and violates the First Amendment because it amounts to taxation in support of religion...
Robert Braucher, professor of Law at the Law School, Henry B. Monaghan, professor of Law at Boston University, and Mrs. Madalyn Murray will disucss "Religion and the First Amendment" at tonight's Law School Forum, in Sanders at tonight's Law School Forum, in Sanders...