European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes july 1985 columns comments Tom Wicker supreme court Fanf showing disdain for religion attorney general Edwin Meese and the Secretary of William have blasted the supreme court for four recent decisions upholding the rigid separation of Church and maybe they didst read Justice Lewis powells concurring opinion in one of those Bennett said he found it hard to understand the courts fastidious disdain for a Csc complained that he first which the court was was intended Only to prohibit religious not to undermine religion he called the court rulings on Church and state but the court didst undermine religion or show fastidious disdain for in two of the cases it ruled unconstitutional certain forms of tax subsidies for Paro Chial schools in the other two it found that the first amendments ban on an establishment of religion had been violated by a Connecticut Law giving workers a right to a weekly Sabbath Day and by an Alabama Law providing for a moment of voluntary prayer in the Public concurring in one of the parochial school pointed to what he believed was a considerable risk of continuing political strife Over state Aid to religious the risk of political divisiveness that might Strain the political he was an additional reason for strict adherence to the constitutional separation of Church and Meese and Bennett risked stirring up just that kind of strife and divisiveness by arguing that the court had ruled against religion rather than for the separation of Church and in All four the court went against the Reagan administrations and the two officials were understandably upset by the results but that Doest justify ignoring the real danger cited by this in seems continually entangled in volatile Church state the administration has relentlessly pushed for a con As 30o Olp Tom jefffrs0n Johnny arms would have Saip to youre a Mam we All look up t0v four Viking fathers would kit found court ruling for separation of Church Carl Rowan Stith tonal amendment permitting organized prayer in the schools and had supported with open enthusiasm All the state statutes and programs the supreme court ruled unconstitutional in the four disputed Meese told the american bar association that the supreme in those four had made policy choices rather than Basing its rulings on constitutional that a Peculiar charge against a court with six of nine justices appointed As strict constructionists by presi dents Ford and Reagan its also differing with a ruling is one thing for an attorney general to characterize the supreme court As acting politically rather than judicially is quite Justice predictably dissenting Down the took another the he wrote in the Ala Bama was ignoring the intent of the framers of the Bill of which was Only to prevent one religion from being preferred Over another not to require neutrality Between religion and what the Justice called but its not easy to determine two centuries later what the framers precise purpose or its Lim Rehnquist himself complained that the records of debate on the religion clause of the first amendment in the House of representatives does not seem particularly and to hold a present Day court to the narrow historical Standard of 18thcentury intent even if indisputably established would be to put the Constitution in a As Justice Sandra Day Oconnor pointed for there were no Public schools when the first amendment was How could the framers have had specific intent toward something that didst exist and even if those who wrote the first amendment did have Equality among religious sects primarily in that Doest and  mean that their obvious larger intent to guarantee religious Liberty cant be interpreted today to protect irreligion York times news service israeli court decision otters Hope in face of terrorism Israel gained vital credibility for its cries against terrorism recently when an israeli court found 15 members of a jewish underground terrorist group guilty of attempted murder and lesser in the face of emotional opposition from some israe the jewish slate made it Clear that extremists in the Israel occupied West Bank must go to prison for Mur Dering Arab trying to assassinate palestinian mayors and planting bombs on buses in East a world so beset by terrorist violence needed to have which is so often the victim of say emphatically that because it is opposed to it will not tolerate israelis perpetrating i wish that i could write that this example of state responsibility augurs safer times in which we All might be freed of the Scourge of terrorist bombings and other even As that israeli court found the West Bank terrorists guilty after a 13month trial events were occurring that made it Clear How difficult it will be to Stop just a Day before that court two car bomb attacks in israels Security zone in South Lebanon killed 17 and even As the court was israeli warplanes and helicopter gunships attacked palestinian refugee Camps in which palestinian terrorist groups were believed to killing at least 1 5 wire dispatches quoted police and Hospital officials in Tripo As saying that the most of them included six children Ages 8 to 12 and an 18 year old this shows us anew that terrorism is a Sci Perpet a atm arabs and palestinians aggrieved by the death and destruction caused by israeli attacks on those Camps near Tripoli Are certain to Plant More bombs in Israel and direct More car bomb suicide at tacks against israeli people and we have no Good reason to believe that the carnage will Ever the israeli military and a lot of other people resent having their airmen who bomb refugee Camps compared with people who Plant bombs in cars and As i have written the civilians in Hose refugee Camps were absolutely when those and helicopter gunships Bui israels longstanding policy is to exact an Eye for an while officials of both countries pretend this produces a fundamental conflict Between the United states and Israel Over the Issue of in his june 18 press while under pressure to punish someone for the hijacking of Twa flight 847 and the seizure of americans As president Reagan said retaliation in some Peoples minds might just entail striking a blow in a general and the result would be a terrorist act in and the killing and victimizing of innocent those who support the israeli stance you cant take terrorism lying if innocent people Are the blame Falls on the terrorists who hide among women and others see Only an endless Cycle of death and destruct with no every society faces hard decisions about a brutal new aspect of International that israeli court has Given us a Glimmer of Hope by we wont tolerate murder and assassinations by our that Hope would broaden if the syrians would do the then the idea might spread to and even that this plague of terrorism ultimately devours both perpetrators and victims America san Iduate Ink auth were 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