Word: vashti
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Parent & Taxpayer. Last week, sparked by William McCarthy, the United Secularists were fighting their first court case. Atheist McCarthy had been thinking about it ever since the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled on the suit of Mrs. Vashti McCollum against the board of education of Champaign, Ill. Atheist McCollum had sued to prevent the board from making school premises available for religious instruction of pupils, and the Supreme Court had upheld her (TIME, March 22, 1948). The decision had set in question the released-time systems of almost every state, but for the organized Secularists this was not enough...
...moved for dismissal on the grounds that no proof had been offered that Gloria had suffered "any harm or damages from the reading of the verses"-especially since the law did not require that schoolchildren be present when the Bible is read. But Lawyer Zimel used the argument of Vashti McCollum in the Champaign case: he insisted that a pupil's absence during the reading inflicts upon him "a religious stigma and sets him apart from his fellows...
...Supreme Court, the First Amendment† means that there is a "wall of separation between Church and State." In the Vashti McCollum case last spring, the court told an Illinois school board not to allow the teaching of religion in the public schools (TIME, March 22). Last week, meeting in Washington, D.C., the Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. denounced the court for this "entirely novel and ominously extensive interpretation...
...White Plains. Said Cardinal Spellman during the building campaign: "I don't care how you pronounce it, so long as we have the school." *The annual pay of New York public schoolteachers ranges from $2,500 to $5,400. *Despite the Supreme Court ruling in the Vashti McCollum case (TIME, March 22), some public schools still allow their students to attend once-a-week "released time" classes in religious education at nearby churches...
Some churchmen cheered when the Supreme Court ruled (Si) for Agnostic Vashti McCollum in her suit against religious education on school property (TIME, March 22). Others, however, were not so sure there was anything to cheer about. Among them were 28 top Protestant leaders, including Bishops Angus Dun and William Scarlett, and Reverends Reinhold Niebuhr, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Henry P. Van Dusen and Douglas Horton. They issued a statement deploring the Supreme Court decision, believed that it would "greatly accelerate the trend toward the secularization of our culture." In the current issue of Christianity and Crisis, Professor John C. Bennett...