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Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc
Subject: Bible Reading in Public School
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Date: 15 Nov 90 16:33:38 GMT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
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A federal district court in Florida has ordered a public school
district to discontinue daily Bible readings in a fifth-grade class.
Citing the constitutional separation of church and state, U.S.
District Judge John Moore of Jacksonville issued a preliminary
injunction October 4th against teacher Martha Mitchell's Bible
reading at Emma Love Elementary School in Fernandina Beach.

Donald and Louise Hatch, whose daughter is enrolled in Mitchell's
class, objected to the practice and filed the Hatch v. Marsh
suit against the Nassau County School Board when Mitchell refused
to discontinue it.

The school board voted unanimously to allow the religious readings.
Said Board member W.D. Rodeffer, "I see nothing wrong in what Mrs.
Mitchell has been doing.  If this little girl doesn't like it,
let's put her in a chair outside the door."
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Jack Carroll     "When a religion is good, I conceive it will support
    itself; and when it does not support itself so that
                  its professors are obliged to call for the help of
                  of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of
                  its being a bad one."
                                           Ben Franklin