Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!alice!jj From: jj@alice.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion Subject: Secular humanism banned in schools that receive Federal aid! Message-ID: <4121@alice.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 13:41:30 EDT Article-I.D.: alice.4121 Posted: Thu Aug 8 13:41:30 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 05:40:47 EDT Organization: New Jersey State Farm for the Terminally Bewildered Lines: 16 Xref: linus net.politics:9706 net.religion:6943 An news story today reports that Orin Hatch, R-Utah, managed to push through a rider to an educational bill a while ago that required schools who receive educational funds from the US Government to "not teach any subject matter of secular humanism". Isaac Asimov and others in a NY group whose title includes "secular humanism" have filed suit in federal court, charging an abridgement of the first amendment. It should be interesting! -- TEDDY BEARS MAY BECOME EXTINCT! HELP AN ENDANGERED SPECIES! "It was great when it all began, ..." (ihnp4/allegra)!alice!jj