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...parochial schools, and Justice Byron White's majority opinion relied heavily on that earlier case. "Of course," he agreed, "books are different from buses." But in this case they are no more of a threat to the Constitution. The public school board must find that they are secular, thus answering the objection that the state might be supplying religious books...
Approval of the manifesto was largely the work of the Baptists' outgoing president, the Rev. Franklin Paschall, a Nashville liberal who had to face loud and sometimes bitter minority opposition in pushing it through. Opponents of the measure argued that Baptists should not take stands on secular issues. Most of the messengers seemed to agree with one delegate who answered: "Let's not emasculate the one good thing we have done in 100 years...
...same strain of anti-authoritarianism ran through the writing of Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers, eventually leading to a fresh, secular cult among the Romantics, notably in Rousseau, whose "natural man" was supposed to be superior to artificial government. One of the cries of the French Revolution, along with "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite!", was "Anarchy!" A man who regarded himself as "the most complete expression of the Revolution," a self-educated French printer named Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, became anarchism's most articulate spokesman. With the Revolution ringing in his ears, and using Rousseau's "natural society" for his lamplight, Proudhon...
...much pompous, convoluted verbosity. The rest of us-the prosaic mass-have traditionally looked to our founding fathers and religious leaders to help us articulate that which we so inadequately proclaim. I, for one, am not confused by God, or the church, or my place in a secular world. I am confused and profoundly disappointed in the lack of faith displayed by our leaders...
...when you advance slightly, you become a Methodist; when you arrive you're an Episcopalian." By comparison with King and other outspoken Southern pastors, the majority of Northern clergy have been much more passive in the struggle for equality-and have allowed the movement to fall into militant secular hands. Like many white churches, Negro congregations have found themselves alienated from skeptical youth-and teen-age looters in the recent riots were clearly not guided by obedience to the Ten Commandments. "They don't hear you when you say, Thou shalt not kill,'" admits the Rev. Clyde...