Bible reading and Bible study in the schools of Michigan will be legalized by the present Legislature, Rev. Andrew H. Harnly. State Representative from Michigan, predicted at a mass meeting in the Jefferson Avenue Baptist Church.
Representative Harnly, who is a Saptist minister, is the sponsor of an amendment to the State School Code making it permissible for any school in Michigan to have daily Bible readings, elective courses in the study of the Bible and the release of students for religious education outside the school. The bill will be taken up by the committee of education of the State Legislature at Lansing. Mich, on Thursday and Rep. Harnly said he expects that it will be reported out and adopted.
Opposition to the bill has developed among non-Protestant groups in the state, and Jewish, Catholic and other spokesman are to oppose it at a public hearing.
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