The proposal made by pastors of four Dultuth, (Minn.) churches for a religious hour for public school children one day a week, which is to be presented to the board of education for approval was attacked by Rabbi Harvey E. Wessel, Rabbi of Temple Emanuel of that city.
Rabbi Wessel declared that the attempts being made to have children attend religious hours was wholly unnecessary. It was stated recently that definite plans for a religious hour had not been worked out and the board of education had not yet been asked to pass on the proposal. The plan was to have Protestant children, whose parents desired, at tend services at a Protestant church for about an hour one day each week.
There is no covering law in the state. The action of a Virginia (Minn.) school board permitting the reading of the Bible in the schools of that district was carried on test to the State Supreme Court in a case known as Max Kaplan vs. Independent School District of Virginia. A majority opinion approved the action in the decision handed down on April 22, 1927. The dissenting opinion was written by Chief Justice Wilson.
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