Beware the slippery slope.More years ago than I wish to recall, I worked closely with Glenn Archer, then executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State Americans United for Separation of Church and State (Americans United or AU for short) is a religious freedom advocacy group in the United States which promotes the separation of church and state, a legal doctrine seen by the AU as being enshrined in the Establishment , on a number of issues, primarily blue laws blue laws, legislation regulating public and private conduct, especially laws relating to Sabbath observance. The term was originally applied to the 17th-century laws of the theocratic New Haven colony, and appears to originate in and education. At that time I was executive secretary of Liberty magazine, a publication of the Seventh-day Adventists. My passion has always been separation of church and state
In the early 1970s, New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). was looking at an educational system called "dual enrollment." It meant putting public school teachers into church-related schools at taxpayers' expense. My town of Keene decided to go along with this plan and put science, math and history teachers into our local Catholic school. I appealed to Americans United for financial help to battle this issue in court. They chose a very competent lawyer in Wilton, N.H., and together we fought and won the case in federal court. The state of separation between church and state in this country is certainly swiftly going down a slippery slope 'slippery slope' Medical ethics An ethical continuum or 'slope,' the impact of which has been incompletely explored, and which itself raises moral questions that are even more on the ethical 'edge' than the original issue , l commend your efforts to confront the issues in these difficult political times. Eleanore L. Smart Keene, N.H. |
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