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Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools, due to violation of the First Amendment. [1]
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 ...
In 1944, the government of British Columbia amended the Public Schools Act to provide for compulsory Bible reading at the opening of the school day, to be followed by a compulsory recitation of the Lord’s Prayer. This amendment appeared as section 167 of the Public Schools Act, and read as follows: [6] 167.
Some states have banned mass balloon releases, like the one in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1986 when a charity set loose a world-record 1.5 million helium-filled balloons. North Carolina has no statewide ...
State Sen. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, is putting forth the bill to make it a “petty offense” to take part in releasing “ten or more balloons inflated with gas” on purpose as an adult.
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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.
Twenty-two balloons, one for each year of Florida State University student Will Proctor's life, were released during a vigil held in his memory after he died over the weekend Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020.