| Show bible public schools supreme court AN the bible legally be excluded C CAN from the lie public schools the united states supreme court will asked to decide this question this 0 is announced recently by leaders of the presbyterian church in new york who have headed a movement among various IOUS religious denominations to bring a test tm case before the tb cat ions highest tribunal tri bunel the state mate of washington which offic officially tally excludes the bible from its public schools will furnish the basis bails for the case the line of attack will be based on the declaration of independence the claim Is that the declaration to Is a covenant Tenant eo between the th american notion nation and god and that the study of he be bible by american children Is essential to an aa understanding of the covenant and to full knowledge of god to exclude the bible from the public schools the presbyterians rians contend in their presentment preparatory to an appeal to the supreme court Is in to violate one of the essential essco Ual clauses of the opening program of the declaration of independence in the state of washington the attorney general and later the state st supreme p ach L court have rendered an opinion la in which the bible in effect Is judged to be a sectarian book and la in which it Is I 1 decreed to be unconstitutional to read or teach of the bible la in abe schools arguments have bare been presented in the presentment to ahr hb that no state has a right to exclude from its system of education instruction in the science of religion as set forth in the bible the only book which sets forth the existence anwa and other attributes of the divine providence to which the declaration of independence Is committed without this his exclusion being repugnant int to the and nd therefore vold old 4 |
