Word: torcaso
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...Supreme Court of the United States last week unanimously reversed two lower courts to find that the State of Maryland's "religious test for public office unconstitutionally invades . . . freedom of belief and religion." The case in question: Roy R. Torcaso's application for a commission as notary public, denied two years ago because he says flatly that he does not believe...
During the two years' waiting, says Roy Torcaso, he has got three antagonistic phone calls-one calling him a "dirty Communist," another an "atheistic bum." the third insulting his wife. Overbalancing that, he says, he has received "tremendously overwhelming support" from all over the U.S. and Canada...