High Court Fair to Religion, Says Jewish Leader
NEW YORK — A Jewish leader has challenged statements by Secretary of Education William J. Bennett and Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese that recent Supreme Court decisions have been hostile to religion.
Theodore R. Mann, president of the American Jewish Congress, said “strict neutrality” about religion is essential in public schools and injecting “religious values” into them would offend many and turn schools into “religious battlegrounds.”
Bennett and Meese had criticized recent Supreme Court decisions barring public schoolteachers from giving remedial courses to disadvantaged children in church schools and outlawing a moment’s silence for “meditation or prayer” in public schools.
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