Do Invocations at Graduations Violate the First Amendment?
Examines how the case of Weisman v. Lee will cause the US Supreme Court to decide whether a theistic but nonsectarian prayer at a public school graduation ceremony violated the First Amendment. Facts of the case which started at the June 20, 1989graduation of Nathan Bishop Middle School, Providence...
| Publicado en: | America Magazine: The Jesuit Review of Faith & Culture Vol. 165; no. 5; pp. 114 - 117 |
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America Media
8/31/1991
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| Sumario: | Examines how the case of Weisman v. Lee will cause the US Supreme Court to decide whether a theistic but nonsectarian prayer at a public school graduation ceremony violated the First Amendment. Facts of the case which started at the June 20, 1989graduation of Nathan Bishop Middle School, Providence, R.I.; June 30, 1989 ruling by Chief Judge Francis J. Boyle of Federal District Court of Rhode Island; Lemon v. Kurtzman; March v. Chambers; State rulings; President's reaction. |
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