SCOTUS Litigant Speaks About Case and Church State Separation
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In 1956, Ellery Schempp at 16 years of age staged a protest against his high school's requirement that each student read Bible passages and recite Lord's Prayer each day during homeroom. To protest Ellery brought a copy of the Qur'an, even though he did not identify as Muslim, and read from that. He was the primary student involved in the landmark 1963 United States Supreme Court case of Abington School District v. Schempp which declared that required public-school-sanctioned Bible readings were unconstitutional.
Dr. Schempp, a physicist, spoke in Rochester, NY about the SCOTUS case he and his family were litigants in and the important issue of separation of church and state.
Dr. Schempp, a physicist, spoke in Rochester, NY about the SCOTUS case he and his family were litigants in and the important issue of separation of church and state.
