Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...testimony will be based on a series of interviews with plaintiffs' children seeking to discover how they have been affected by the alleged secular humanism of the textbooks, the professor of psychiatry and medical humanities said...
...plaintiffs in Smith v. Board of Mobile County allege that the secular humanism found in the textbooks and the teachings in the Alabama Public School System hinder the parents' efforts to install religious values at home, said Ricki L. Seidman, director of a defense fund helping finance the suit...
Coles, who teaches one of the most popular courses at Harvard, General Education 105, "The Literature of Social Reflection," said that the plaintiffs say that secular humanism is a religion contrary to their own religion and that it violates their Constitutional rights...