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A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court by Joseph Lewis, president of the Freethinkers of America, requesting that the Board of Education be restrained from allowing the reading of the Bible and the singing of hymns in public schools. Arthur Garfield Hays, Joseph Wheless and Stephen B. Vreeland are representing Mr. Lewis, and Clarence Darrow has also been retained as counsel.
Mr. Louis, who brought his action as a taxpayer, bases his complaint on the fact that the Bible is the King James’ version and therefore “distinctly Protestant” and as a consequence distasteful to Jewish and Catholic children.
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