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...MADALYN MURRAY O'HAIR, the angry atheist, may well have more religious fervor than anyone since Cotton Mather. Her fervor is aimed at making sure that reports of God's death are not exaggerated. Spouting the Constitution as Scripture, she has forced the Supreme Court to ban compulsory public-school prayers, threatened the tax exemption on church property, and is currently protesting the astronauts' moonside recitation of Genesis last Christmas Eve. "I'm no eccentric," she said recently. "I'm the leader of a valid movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE SAD STATE OF ECCENTRICITY | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

...that was publicly denounced by Professional Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair as a violation of church-and-state separation. NASA, however, has received more than 800 letters approving the Scripture reading-many of them also proposing that Mrs. O'Hair be rocketed to the moon and left there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theology: Challenge in the Heavens | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...Madalyn Murray will speak on atheism, sex, the separation of church and state, anarchy and other topics tonight at 8 p.m. in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room. Admission is free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Madalyn Murray to Speak | 10/16/1967 | See Source »

...MADALYN MURRAY O'HAIR Austin, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 12, 1967 | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...exemption for any house of worship or parsonage or place of religious teaching. Since 1956, the court has rejected three cases which argued that such exemption violates the First Amendment's establishment clause. Last week the court did it again; this time it was the case of Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair, who claims that church exemption hikes taxes for other property owners and amounts to taxation in support of religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: An Aggressive Atheist Rebuffed | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

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