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Fear and doubt dominated the initial clerical reaction to the Supreme Court ruling against the New York State Board of Regents' prayer for schools. In their second thoughts most Protestant and Jewish religious figures seem to have decided that the court was right.* Last week 46 Protestant and Jewish...
Last week the superintendent of Oklahoma City's public schools announced that Bible reading would continue in classes; a school district in Colonie, N.Y., decided to substitute a short period of silence for optional contemplation in place of the banned regents' prayer. In Hicksville, L.I., the board of...
Every NAACP meeting is begun by the singing of a hymn and the recitation of a prayer--and the secretary's minutes faithfully recall the hymns and prayers of the previous week. Throughout the meetings, which are usually attended by about 30 of the town's 900 adult Negroes, religion...
Three years ago, five parents of children attending public schools in New Hyde Park, a suburban community on Long Island, brought suit in the New York State Supreme Court to halt recitation of the Regents' prayer on the ground that it violated their beliefs. Of the five parents, two...
This impression was fortified by Justice Stewart's dissent, in which he argued that "to deny the wish of these children to join in reciting this prayer is to deny them the opportunity of sharing in the spiritual heritage of our nation." But the right of free exercise carries...