Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year, when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision barring the recitation of an official prayer, written by a state board, in New York's public schools, the hue and cry was deafening...
...Baltimore, under a rule adopted by the board of school commissioners back in 1905, the daily opening exercises in the city's public schools included the "reading, without comment, of a chapter in the Holy Bible and/or the use of the Lord's Prayer." Madalyn E. Murray, self-professed atheist and mother of two school-age sons, brought suit to get the rule repealed...
...Government Is Neutral." At least 30 states either require or authorize Bible readings in public schools; for about half of all the schoolchildren in the U.S., the school day begins with religious exercises that include Bible verses or the Lord's Prayer or both. Among those who will not be affected by the ruling are the children on whose behalf Mr. and Mrs. Schempp brought their suit: the two youngsters were graduated from Abington Senior High School, near Philadelphia, a few days before the court handed down its decision...
Double-Barreled Amendment. As in last year's New York prayer case, Justice Potter Stewart was the only dissenter from the majority opinion. Stewart raised a point that troubled many other minds. He noted that the First Amendment is double-barreled. It requires that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Stewart argued that an "insensitive" interpretation of the establishment clause can conflict with the free exercise clause. Involved in the Pennsylvania and Maryland cases, said Stewart, is "a substantial free exercise claim on the part of those who affirmatively...
...automobile at the head of the procession of saffron-robed Buddhist monks in Saigon suddenly choked to a stop at an intersection. The occupants of the car lifted its hood as chanting priests began forming a circle seven or eight deep around the vehicle. Prayer beads clutched in his hand, a phlegmatic, 73-year-old monk named Thich Quang Due sat down cross-legged on the asphalt in the center of the circle. From under the auto's hood, a monk took a canister of gasoline and poured it over the old priest. An expression of serenity...