Ellery's protest
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Oklahoma Catholic charter school complaint; bibles banned in Utah schools; state/church complaints in Arizona and Georgia schools. After noting the death of televangelist Pat Robertson, we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the June 1963 Abington v. Schempp Supreme Court decision that removed bible reading and the Lord's Prayer from public schools by speaking with octogenarian Ellery Schempp, the courageous high-school student who initiated the complaint.
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