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Show Rose (1/20/83) page 8 Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R ment can't give ~onev to a religious school or schools s~pported by a given religion. It even got to the point where, I believe, it was in New Jersey that the supreme court sunnorted a decision to the effect that you can't even have a moment of silence which is what we here were offering as an ulternative to the schools, and the supreme court just came down and held that invalid a statute in New Jersy, I'm pretty sure it was New Jersey, to the effect that not even that moment of meditation was going to make it. So, they left no basis for it at all? I mean, they just wiped it out. There are two areas where you run into trouble with this, and of course, I had to deal with that, too. Almost universally if you protest to the practice in the schools, the authorities with the most bland assurance of good will will say •BUT, we think we can justify this on the bas is that it is cultural and the.t it's ed u-cational •• now I'm stuck, I can't remember the )TO one, but everything is cultural, educational, and something else. A matter of building values, or something like that. No, no, no. Historical? No, no, don't try to rush me to the word, because it's neither one of those. For whatever it is, they come back with 3; it's almost a ritual. Now, on the one extreme, it's true even of prayer. It' cultural, it's educational, and it's whatever else it is aside it's sectarian quality. Of course, once they've «ot the notion that you're objecting to that and you have the law firmly behind |
