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...Sectarian Ambiance. By contrast, Maryland permits state-taxpayer suits -and starting in 1962, the Maryland general assembly created a state college-aid program that parallels the federal setup. Four bills provided $2,500,000 for new facilities at four church-related colleges-Hood (United Church of Christ), Western Maryland (Methodist), Notre Dame and St. Joseph's (Roman Catholic). All of the bills were challenged by 13 Maryland taxpayers and the Horace Mann League, an association of 500 public-school educators. The state court's decision, they hoped, would, by inference, hold the federal programs unconstitutional...
...point. Not only do such exemptions raise everyone else's taxes, agreed the Maryland court, but they also give religious organizations the equivalent of indirect government grants. Even so, the court insisted, such "grants" do not violate the establishment clause because their prime purpose is secular rather than sectarian. While religious organizations get a tax break, the general public gets an even bigger break through such church activities as aid to the poor and aged, day nurseries, care of the sick, and efforts to eliminate racial inequalities. Said the Maryland decision: "The performance of these functions by private agencies...
...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...
...council, Judaism offered its adherents a choice between Orthodoxy or apostasy. Now the Jew has a range of choice from secular indifference to Reform permissiveness to the strict Halakic observance of the Hasidim. Jews-and Protestants too-are aware that pluralism offers risks as well as rewards: indifferentism, sectarian quarrels, doctrinal anarchy. Yet just as Catholicism accepted the precedent of other faiths in adopting a vernacular liturgy and a belief in the primacy of conscience, it may come to embrace the Protestant and Jewish acceptance of fiery dissent within the community of faith...
Pope and his maumetry"), and jolly sectarian scuttlebutt about such adulterous priests as the one who, "haunting to an honest man's wife, was subtly taken creeping through a window, and hanged out of the window in a gin laid for him of purpose." The body of his book recites in grisly detail and with respectable accuracy the martyrology of a mournful century in which as many as 84 Englishmen in a single year were burned as "filthye Hereticks...