Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reasons why the amendment is a bad one have been covered many times. It is dangerous because it is a positive step toward state support of religion as well as a direct attack on the First Amendment. It is meaningless, because school children will be coerced into "voluntary" participation because they do not want to be different from the majority of their classmates. Many national leaders, including President Kennedy, have insisted that the church and the home are the places where religion should be taught, not the school...
...convinced that Donald Thorman's pessimistic prognosis of Catholicism's future in America [Sept. 16] needs a qualifying footnote, for it underestimates the experience of insecurity which attends the exercise of private judgment in religion. Emma Lazarus' "huddled masses" are still huddled, and will go right on huddling, whether on a campus or within a ghetto of Cuban refugees. Catholicism knows this, and it presents a power structure that makes it not only difficult to question the divine nature of the Church but dangerous as well. As a Protestant, I have often wanted this assurance. But each...
...Boerne, Tex., school board hired two Roman Catholic Benedictine sisters to teach math and English, now faces petitions from Protestants who claim that the sisters' habits constitute "silent, striking teaching of sectarian religion...
...through the use of LSD and other psychedelic drugs, to induce something like mystical consciousness in a controlled laboratory environment. Such experimentation should be pushed forward, contend Psychiatrist Walter Pahnke, who holds a Harvard theology degree, and his associate William Richards, who has a degree in the psychology of religion from Andover-Newton Theo logical School. They publish their findings in the current Journal of Religion and Health...
...those who wanted services to sign a list. Because the prison records gave no indication of why Howard was confined, other than "for the good of the institution," the three-judge Appeals Court unanimously held that he was being arbitrarily punished "for making a reasonable attempt to exercise his religion." He was ordered back to the main prison for "as long as his conduct conforms to proper prison regulations...