Word: disestablish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Protestants, while Catholics, Buddhists, Jews, Mohammedans and others must foot the bill for their own, equally beautiful and educational religious programs. If there is to be no distinction made between members of an "established" church at Harvard and members of "unestablished" churches, the answer wouls seem to be to "disestablish" the preachership altogether. To use the money of members of other religions for services which they cannot attend (if they are to be faithful to their own) is a very real kind of taxation without representation...
...election of Griffiths and Colburn is, of course, not indicative of any identifiable trend among youthful voters. Neither man may be considered a radical. Says Griffiths: "We are not out to disestablish the establishment." Moreover, both had substantial off-campus support. But for those looking to 1972, the dramatic demonstration of youth power in East Lansing shows that when students choose to throw their weight behind a candidate who also has local strength, they can make the difference...
...churches and state religious existed at that time. From the cited Laubach: "As Professor Wilbur Katz has pointed out, 'It seems undeniable that the First Amendment operated and was intended to operate, to protect from Congressional interference the varying state policies of church establishment.' The Amendment forbade Congress to disestablish as well as to establish religion...
...Massachusetts became the last state to disestablish a religion. In the 1840s, a New Orleans priest named Permoldi, convicted for conducting a burial according to his religious convictions but in contravention of Louisiana's burial laws, argued protection of religious liberty under the federal Constitution, and was told by the Supreme Court that the federal Constitution offered no such protection since it announced no "inhibition" of state religious policy...
...Sure the support was there and the funding comes through Harvard Law School, but it really existed very much on its own. It tries very hard to disestablish itself from the law school. What they're trying to do now in the law school is really co-opting us.... You want the whole system to tumble. You don't want to build...