Word: sectarian
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...Board of Regents' prayer was sectarian. It stated or implied four dogmas that form the basis for a well-defined doctrine: first, that a "God" exists ; secondly, that there is only one such "God"; that this "God" was the "God" creator hears of such the prayers universe; and and can lastly, intercede that in human affairs to answer them. Here is an unambiguously stated credo for a sect that, no matter how large and inclusive it be, is still only a sect whose doctrine is not accept able...
Accepting the premise that the prayer was sectarian, the schools' use of it jeopardized the students' right to freedom of religion. To a child, the school is the fountain of knowledge and source of authority. If the school favors or encourages a practice or belief, the child must make the tacit assumption that such schools' use practice of or such a belief is prayer is a "right." Thus misuse of the its position of authority and fosters, even in the nonparticipating child, a faith in the Tightness of the prayer...
...strengthen a religious school, but this support would not be tantamount to establishing a national religion, he said. Besides, "there are already so many ways in which we aid religious institutions today," such as churches' exemption from federal taxation and the availability of G.I. Bill scholarships to students at sectarian schools...
Religious as well as non-sectarian institutions could have taken advantage of the state guarantees. Roman Catholics had been advised in their churches to vote in favor of the amendment, according to the New York Times...
...Taxpayers threatened to impeach the school board. Principal Raymond Oestreich attacked the McGuffey's Readers because of "antiquated grammar, misspelled words and poor punctuation." One teacher refused to use it. And state legal advisers, who want to keep church and state separate, objected to McGuffey's "sectarian references...