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...BEEN said that the problem with the fundamentalists' argument was that it complained against un-Christian, as opposed to specifically anti-Christian education. However, the most startling argument put forth in the case is that the school system teaches its own religion, "secular humanism...
What Mansfield dismisses as "feminist propaganda" is the study of theories that attempt to account for these statistics. I suppose then that other courses are also "vehicles for propaganda"--including Christian propaganda, Marxist propaganda or secular-humanist propaganda. I would guess that the Afro-American Studies courses are sympathetic to the plight of Blacks; does that make the field less legitimate? One would hope that the new concentration would indeed by objective and worthy of the term "scholarly pursuit." Pauline...
...these people disagree with -- everything from divorce to evolution." The two sides are clashing in a federal courtroom in Mobile, where the plaintiffs have brought a suit against the Alabama state board of education. At issue: whether some 45 texts used in Alabama schoolrooms illegally espouse a religion, called secular humanism by the Evangelicals, which they argue elevates man at the expense...
...First Amendment did not apply to the states in such cases. Although an appeals court reversed Hand's decision, he provided grounds for restructuring the issue so that the original plaintiff, Lawyer Ishmael Jaffree, was replaced by the 624 Evangelicals and the central argument became not prayer but secular humanism...
...claim," says Attorney William Bradford, who is defending the school board, "is that secular humanism is not a religion, and even if it were a religion, there is no evidence it is being espoused in these texts." The common legal definition of a religion specifies belief in a superior being, which would seem to be the very antithesis of secular humanism. Before the plaintiffs' attorneys rested their case last week, they called expert witnesses in an attempt to resolve this apparent contradiction. University of Virginia Sociologist James D. Hunter characterized secular humanism as the functional equivalent of a religion...