The legislative attempt to amend the U.S. Constitution to permit Bible reading and other religious exercises in public schools was viewed as being “a questionable precedent that could alter our basic charter of liberties dangerously,” in a statement issued today by the Central Committee on Christian Social Relations of the five dioceses of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania.
The action was taken at a meeting of the Central Committee following the adoption of a memorial by the Pennsylvania State Senate, urging such amendment to the Federal Constitution. The position taken by the Central Committee was made known to its own constituency
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