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Madalyn Murray Ohair — Part 2
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challenge’ to religious exercises | say they are atheists and main-|ter L. “Barrett, who ‘had. been
in’ public. . schools: ‘appéared | tain” that the religious™exer-. assigned : from |, the ; “Baltimore!
headed for the ..U.S:: Supreme cises -violate ‘the, constitutional: County: ‘Circuit! - Court.” _ Judge
Court in the wake ofa 43 rul- provisions regarding |. - Church-' Barrett ‘sat ‘in “place: of -Judge °
ing in their favor by the Mary- [State relations and- equal Pro.’ Cc ‘Ferdinand ‘Sybert, “former
land | Court. ‘of _Appealgs.?: a ; tection under, the law. 8 Matyland:, : attorney. :/general, |
*Steryiand’s high s highest court hela 2 religié as Exercises * are |
jast Friday that Bible ‘reading carried‘out under a Baltimore ‘- y
Dissenting. ‘were. ‘evi: Dh udge.
and/or recitation. of the. Lord's Board of Education ruling. The |.
: Frederick C.. Brune’ and Judges!
. ‘| ruling was adopted in 1908 and
i— —— | amended in 1960 to provide that | William L’ Henderson and Sted:
aan Tato analysis ‘of ‘ihe gs. j any. student may be excused |man P Prescott.;: nee ee
‘ from the exercises upon tten wn
tes involved in this and sim- hi ~ ra. | Judge’ Horney. in his major-
“eases, see editorial, “In | request of Murray is € o ised. ity opinion put special emph is’
veo” ian. ‘Youn urray is excus .
| We Trust+Or, Do We” B y -{on_the -fact that -there. is] no’
- The dispute began in Oetober, compulsion for ‘a student} to’
1960,. when Mrs. Murray with-|| rake part. vin the, ‘eligious ex: ;
~~ |drew William from a Baltimore ercises. a ;
‘Prayer, in. “Baltimore - ” public junior high school in. protest |. :
ischools . do not violate the US. against the religious exercises. |}
‘Constitution. ee ae She later returned him to class.
: ” ¥ when school authorities agreed
bd. re gee “sete Wik|to excuse him. from the exer.
imajority opinion, © “neither. the | ~- ; : : i:
First Amendment nor the Four-J..:In’ Dévember: 1960, she began’ > einer cnet
teenth Amendment was intend- ‘court, action against the exer-.
‘ed to stifle all rapport between cises. .
we
“He said ‘the aihount ¢ 0 "school:
time: ‘and ‘of. public . funds ain-;
volved are negligible and that’
the, exercises are in‘ the. same,
category as prayers’ in‘the Leg?
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ticularly because the appellant-rne washington Post and__
student::in - this: case-.was: not Tt ala
compelled “to. participate *: mee Hor
lwe hold that: ‘the opening . exer.The Washington Daily New:
wi cises do not “violate the religi- -Phe Evening Star
‘ous “clauses ' (of: the . -Constitu-, ew York Herald Tribune —
{tion),” he sald."
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tr Leonard JK el in: the Court-of “Appeals were
Attorney n erp a udges Horry Hall. Hammond,’
‘man said he would. appeal the
decision to the: U.S. _Supremé{e
der advisement a case from|-
New York involving a challenge
‘to the ‘constitutionality of recit-
ing a non-sectarian prayer . in
New York public schools. _
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Madalyn “Murray andjher
sog, William J, Murray, Uf. a:
niiith-graver;in: a . Baltishore.
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cent years remanded to. Penn-!e™ York® Dally Nows
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ing religious exercises -in .p The New York Times ——
Ali schools,’ after the law gqv “Phe Worker
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The Wall Street Journal —__
, The National Observer
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