RE: Australian High Court rules against public school chaplains
July 14, 2012 at 3:08 am
(This post was last modified: July 14, 2012 at 3:10 am by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
Quote:This country needs a bill of rights like that of the United States with same strict separation between church and state clause.
Agreed, as long as the people enforcing it have some balls.
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Quote:It's a wonder that they even banned the leading of prayers
Because of a legal challenge against what was an unconstitutional practice. There was one person above all responsible for that challenge; Madayln Murray O'Hare, a militant atheist.
Quote:Madalyn Murray O'Hair (April 13, 1919 – September 29, 1995) was an American atheist activist. She was the founder of the organization American Atheists and served as its president from 1963 to 1986. One of her sons, Jon Garth Murray, was the president of the organization from 1986 to 1995, while she remained de facto president during these nine years. She is best known for the Murray v. Curlett lawsuit, which led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling ending official Bible-reading in American public schools in 1963. Officially-sponsored prayer in schools had been ended a year earlier by the Supreme Court in Engel v. Vitale. O'Hair later founded American Atheists and became so controversial that in 1964 Life magazine referred to her as "the most hated woman in America."[1][2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madalyn_O%27Hare