Word: wieder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Allen M. Wieder and Joel Katcoff said yesterday they filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, N.Y., because they believe that paying chaplains to lead servicemen in prayer is a form of governmental support of religious activity, and therefore unconstitutional. "The state should not take money from its citizens to support religion," Katcoff said...
Both Katcoff and Wieder said that, constitutionally, servicemen should be provided with clergy and the opportunity to worship, but that the clergy should be paid from the private sector and not by the government...
...began research on the suit early last summer, framed and filed the complaint without the aid of a lawyer. "We asked some people for advice, but it was basically our own case," Wieder said...
Katcoff and Wieder plan to pursue the case as far into the court system as they can. "We don't intend to be stopped by monetary problems," Wieder said, adding the two would finance the suit themselves