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In the five months leading to the riots, nativist groups had been spreading a false rumor that Catholics were trying to remove the Bible from public schools. A nativist rally in Kensington erupted in violence on May 6 and started a deadly riot that would result in the destruction of two Catholic churches and numerous other buildings.
Abington School District v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (1963), [1] was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court decided 8–1 in favor of the respondent, Edward Schempp, on behalf of his son Ellery Schempp, and declared that school-sponsored Bible reading and the recitation of the Lord's Prayer in public schools in the United States was unconstitutional.
The restriction of religious texts in U.S. public schools, including the Bible, was referred to as a "Bible ban". [104] In June 2023, the Davis School District in Utah banned the Bible in Elementary and Middle Schools due to "vulgarity or violence" inappropriate for the age group. [105] [106] [107]
The Good Book is being treated like a bad book in Utah after a parent frustrated by efforts to ban materials from schools convinced a suburban district that some Bible verses were too vulgar or ...
The Bible is removed from elementary and middle schools in one Utah district after a complaint that the Scriptures feature material inappropriate for younger kids.
A Texas school district that removed the Bible over a new law banning “sexually explicit” material has backtracked — after being told it was both wrong and “likely illegal” to strip it ...
Madalyn Murray O'Hair (née Mays; April 13, 1919 – September 29, 1995) [1] was an American activist supporting atheism and separation of church and state.In 1963, she founded American Atheists and served as its president until 1986, after which her son Jon Garth Murray succeeded her.
The 19th-century debates over public funding for religious schools, and reading the King James Bible in the public schools was most heated in 1863 and 1876. [3] Partisan activists on the public-school issue believed that exposing Catholic schoolchildren to that particular translation would loosen their affiliation to the Catholic Church. In ...