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A 6 page paper assessing the case of a public elementary school actively promoting Halloween programs in the face of protests by fundamentalist Christian parents, who claim that Halloween is a pagan celebration and that they wish the principal of the school to either (1) allow their children to be insulated from what they claim is religious instruction contrary to their beliefs, or (2) allow equal time for presenting what they believe is the opposing view. The paper discusses the anti-establishment clause; Penn’s “Holy Experiment;” Good News Club v. Milford Central School; Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah; and the recent growth of the Wiccan movement to conclude that the principal of the school needs to remove all religious references if s/he wishes to retain any Halloween celebrations in the school. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSlawRelHalloween.rtf
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The case to be assessed here is that of a public elementary school actively promoting Halloween programs in the face of protests by fundamentalist Christian parents, who claim that
Halloween is a pagan celebration and that they wish the principal of the school to either (1) allow their children to remain in the schools library for the month of
October and so be insulated from what they claim is religious instruction contrary to their beliefs, or (2) allow equal time for presenting what they believe is the opposing view.
They maintain that if the school persists in giving instruction in pagan religion, then it also should provide instruction in Christian religious beliefs. The purpose is to assess
the schools position and the likely outcome of a lawsuit resulting from the conflict. Background in Penns "Holy Experiment" It is a common
assumption that America was founded on the principles of religious freedom. That idea is accurate as far as it goes, but in reality the religious freedom being sought initially
was for a specific group only, namely the Puritans. Today, the term "religious freedom" generally is viewed from the perspective of the individual, and much of our understanding of
the term today has its roots in William Penns "Holy Experiment" in Pennsylvania when what would become the United States of America still was a colonial possession of Great Britain
(Lambert, 2003). William Penns utopian view of the coexistence of differing religious views ultimately did not succeed, but it did provide a basis
from which the concept of tolerance grew. Penn was convinced that in order for the experiment to succeed, God-fearing people ... must obey laws in order to live free.
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