Five Ohio Jewish organizations joined the American Civil Liberties Union and the Ohio Baptist Convention today in a taxpayers suit challenging the constitutionality of a state law requiring school districts to provide educational materials to sectarian schools on the same basis as to public schools. The disputed state law authorizes a $13 million expenditure for such aid over an 18-month period.
The petition contended that the law violated the church-state separation principle and the religious liberty guarantees of the first amendment of the federal constitution. The suit was filed in the Court of Common Pleas here but its sponsors indicated they intended to carry it to the U. S. Supreme Court if necessary. Jewish groups joining in the suit were the Northern Ohio Council of the American Jewish Congress, the Cleveland Jewish Community Federation, the Jewish Community Relations Committee of Cincinnati, the Community Relations Committee of the Toledo Jewish Welfare Federation and the Workmen’s Circle district committee of Ohio.
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