The New York State Council of Churches, a Protestant group, opposed today a bill before the State Legislature to post copies of a so-called non-sectarian Ten Commandments in public schools. Similar opposition was voiced by Jewish organizations.
In a memorandum to the Legislature, the Council charged that the bill trod on Very dangerous grounds, ” contravened state and national constitutional provisions on freedom of- religion and actually “reflects one religious point of view. ” The Council expressed the belief that enactment of the measure would “create sectarian division, arouse confusion and controversy between public schoolchildren on the one hand, and, on the other, destructive dissension in the adult and parental community. “
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