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...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...
School boards and schoolteachers all over the U.S. were worried. The Supreme Court had ruled 8 to 1 for Unbeliever Vashti McCollum in her suit against the school board of Champaign, Ill. The court ruled that the board must stop making religious instruction available to its pupils in the school building and on school time. It also laid down the ruling that religious instruction in public schools was a violation of the First Amendment. Now the question was: Would the court also hold that religious education during "released time" was unconstitutional...
...should the state go in supporting religious education? Or should the state support such education at all? In the white marble temple of the U.S. Supreme Court last week, a new engagement was fought in this running battle. Atheist Vashti McCollum had a final hearing in her suit to stop the board of education in Champaign, Ill. from allowing religious instructions at her son's school (TIME...