School Prayer: A Community at War
Soros Documentary Fund In 1962 the Supreme Court ruled that school-sanctioned prayers and devotional Bible readings in public school classrooms are unconstitutional but this ruling is ignored every day, especially in the South. Lisa Herdahl, a Mississippi mother of six, sues her local school distric...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | English |
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United States
1999
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:3371fe5b-d550-43cf-9750-03560c0fe3ce |
| Summary: | Soros Documentary Fund
In 1962 the Supreme Court ruled that school-sanctioned prayers and devotional Bible readings in public school classrooms are unconstitutional but this ruling is ignored every day, especially in the South. Lisa Herdahl, a Mississippi mother of six, sues her local school district to remove intercom prayer and Bible classes from the public schools. Christian community members rally against her to protect their time-honored tradition of religious practices in the schools. Both sides claim they are fighting for religious freedom. The question remains: whose freedom is more precious? |
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| Published: | 1999 |