Word: whitehead
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...other side, accommodationists make many of the same arguments with a different twist. It is religious people who have been ostracized, argues lawyer John Whitehead, founder of the Rutherford Institute, a not-for-profit religious-liberty advocacy organization backed by conservative Protestants. Whitehead entered the church-state fray in 1976 when he defended a fourth- grade girl in California whose teacher said she could not wear a cross on her necklace. "Society has been secularized, and the religious person finds he's the odd person out," Whitehead says. "In public schools, religion is something to be avoided, obsolete...
...They had been kept so informed that by the time it came to their function of giving approval, they felt well-prepared to make that decision and to vote," Whitehead says...
...There's been a good deal of integration," says Whitehead. "We have operated more and more as one body instead of as two completely separate bodies...
...Whitehead says he believes that the overseers now feel more closely involved in the making of decisions, since they have more opportunities to express their views directly to members of the Corporation...
...overseer questions Whitehead's claim that closer contact between the two bodies means more influence for the overseers, saying, "What will happen is not that the Corporation will share power, but that the Corporation will run the University and the Board will go back to being a rubber stamp...