Word: nonsectarian
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...responded to the mayhem as big-city mayors often do: she announced plans to post 60 more cops on campus. But her predecessor in the job is convinced that a higher power is required. Ex-mayor and now councilman Marion Barry has proposed a law allowing students to lead nonsectarian classroom prayers. "Maybe, just maybe, it will turn some of our values around," he says. "We've lost...
Kiryas Joel says its public school for the handicapped operates in a strictly nonsectarian fashion. Opponents, led by Louis Grumet, executive director of the New York State School Boards Association, do not argue that point. But they say Lemon forbids the very existence of a school set up by the & state legislature specifically to help a religious community and perpetuate its life-style. New York's highest court outlawed the school because it creates a "symbolic union" between religion and the state. The Supreme Court last week heard arguments in Kiryas Joel's appeal...
...principle of separation of church and state, barred compulsory prayer in public schools. Knox, however, believes he kept within judicial guidelines set in 1992 when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans ruled that prayer was permissible at graduation ceremonies if it was nonproselytizing, nonsectarian, student initiated and student led. Thus, when students approached him about praying in school, the principal, a born-again Christian, allowed them to take a vote on the issue. Moreover, the text of the prayer read at Wingfield High refers to no specific religion or god. Knox, however, ignored...
...only programs is that they are a thinly disguised effort to impose fundamentalist religious values on public-school students and thus violate the constitutional separation of church and state. Some of the texts started out as religious documents and were rewritten to replace references to God and Jesus with nonsectarian words like goodness and decency. Still, it makes little sense to criticize the programs simply because they originate from a religious perspective; what matters is not where the courses came from but what they...
...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...