Word: schempp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Back in the Schools" reflects deep misunderstanding of what the court actually said. In Engel v. Vitale (1962), it overruled the required daily recitation of a nondenominational prayer composed by a governmental body, the New York State Board of Regents. In 1963's Murray v. Curlett and Schempp v. School District, it overruled school-required reading of Scripture in Maryland and Pennsylvania. All three decisions were based on what the court deemed to be an inescapable reading of the First Amendment's "establishment" clause. Far from being antireligious, the court simply aimed to keep government from interfering with...
...view of the fact that the Rev. Billy Graham and many others are at present condemning the U.S. Supreme Court for its decision in the Schempp-Murray Lord's Prayer and Bible reading in the public school cases, I am wondering how these critics of the Supreme Court's decision would bring a prayer into the public schools that would satisfy the Lutheran Synods [Aug. 23], let alone the Catholics, Jews and many other religious groups in our society. When a single denomination, such as the Lutherans, finds it difficult to engage in joint prayer...
...Pennsylvania, a state law required that "at least ten verses from the Holy Bible shall be read, without comment, at the opening of each public school on each school day." Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Schempp, churchgoing Unitarians and at the time the parents of two high school pupils, sued in 1958 to block enforcement of that...
...schools; for about half of all the schoolchildren in the U.S., the school day begins with religious exercises that include Bible verses or the Lord's Prayer or both. Among those who will not be affected by the ruling are the children on whose behalf Mr. and Mrs. Schempp brought their suit: the two youngsters were graduated from Abington Senior High School, near Philadelphia, a few days before the court handed down its decision...