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Wife of Pastor Seeks Court Action Against Religion in Public Schools

April 17, 1959
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Mrs. L. W. Hughes, of Ginghamsburg, announced that she had filed suit against the school board of Tipp City, in Miami County, seeking to enjoin it from continuing the practice of conducting religious classes in the public schools. Mrs. Hughes is the wife of the pastor of the First Unitarian Church of Dayton and her child attends a Tipp City school in which religious classes are conducted.

The public prosecutor of Miami County. James H. De Weese, had formally advised the school board that there was no statute barring them from conducting religious classes in the schools. Mrs. Hughes, through her attorney, took the position that the courts have held that such teachings infringe on separation of Church and State and that their rulings prohibit religious teaching in the public schools.

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