Word: nonsectarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...calm things down, inserting a disclaimer in the movie saying it is fiction and making Scorsese available for interviews stressing his religious sincerity. Yet the protest has taken on a life of its own. Virtually every televangelist, including Pat Robertson, has mentioned the film during appeals for money. A nonsectarian group called Concerned Women for America has asked all MCA stockholders to sell the company's stock on Sept. 15. And Mother Angelica, a nun who runs the nation's largest Catholic cable network, is calling on protesters to drive with their lights on on Aug. 22. Both dates were...
BIBLICAL SCOREBOARD (BS) claims to be a "nonpartisan nonsectarian" publication. Its executives deny that it is pro-Republican, though it seldom says anything good about the Democrats. "Scoreboard recommends to its readers that they vote for the candidates which best represent Judeo-Christian values--those that are pro-family, pro-morality, pro-traditional values, pro-freedom, pro-biblical...
...rights of newly emancipated blacks. Though the 19th century statutes make no mention of schools, one of them does guarantee all persons the same right "to make and enforce contracts." In the 1976 case, the Justices concluded 7 to 2 that Congress intended the law to forbid segregation at nonsectarian private schools. A whites-only policy, they reasoned, denied black parents the opportunity to make contracts with the school for admission of their children...
...then, does the majority not have the right to establish, through its Government, a religious character for the country? In most cases no harm is intended. Read the tepid nonsectarian prayer that led to the 1962 decision, and you wonder what all the breast beating was about: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country." Similarly, how could plaster-of-paris figures in Pawtucket, R.I., have alarmed anybody but the A.C.L.U., which brought the suit...
...dispute results from U.S. Supreme Court decisions. In 1962 and 1963 the court said that the Constitution's ban on "establishment of religion" ruled out New York State's recommended nonsectarian prayer and Pennsylvania's Bible readings and Lord's Prayer recitations. Just last January the court threw out a Louisiana law allowing students or teachers to offer their own prayers. Eight months ago, the Justices also refused to review a decision forbidding students to form in-school prayer meetings on their own before classes. Some states allow a "moment of silence" for students to pray...