European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 Meese says religious Liberty under assault argues against nihilism As a principle of government Washington a attorney general Edwin Meese Iii said wednesday that religious Liberty is under assault by some elements in american society and declared the Reagan administration will resist this idea of religious nihilism As a principle of in a speech before a conference of the knights of without Nam ing we have to recognize that some ideas that have become increasingly influential in recent years Are ideas that threaten religious in an earlier speech to the Educa Tion Secretary William Declar ing that american and Jude Christian values Are flesh of the blood of the said the administration will try to nullify the effect of a recent supreme court ruling limiting Aid to parochial Bennett said the 54 decision rendered july 1 reflects a failure of the court to reflect on the Central importance of religion in our Public the court abolished a new York City program allowing Public school teachers to conduct remedial classes in parochial the same Constitution that had protected the rights of religious parents has become in the hands of aggressive plaintiffs and beguiled the instrument for nothing less than a kind of Ghet toiling of Bennett Meese said some people Are interpreting the first amendment guarantee of separa Tion of Church and state in a Way the founding fathers did not intend nearly 200 years the attorney general said the framers of the Constitution intended essentially that there would be no National Meese noted that the first amendment requires the government make no Law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise but he also it is important to make Clear that while the founding fathers sought to avoid Church state entangle they were not hostile to religion in he said the framers of the Constitution believed that without a sense of Public and societal that society would not he insisted the first amendment was never intended to preclude Federal Aid to religious so Long As that Aid did not favor one group Over there never has been and hopefully never will be an official Church in the United Meese but at the same time we must recognize through congresses have aided certain churches on a nondiscriminatory in a line that brought sustained applause from his Meese the Ern ment should be Able to distribute tax benefits to parents regardless of where they Send their children to school and we have contended that government should be Able to extend Aid All whether they intend to use it for secular or religious Meese said he fears that some Day religious Freedom will be something that peo ple could do Only behind closed doors and in private we run the risk of subordinating All other religions to some secular in its the principle of neutrality toward All religions has been trans formed by some into hostility toward any thing that is in order to protect the religious Liberty of the american people this administration has argued against the idea of religious nihilism As a principle of messes Only reference to the supreme court came in his comment that the administration was seeking to overturn the 1973 landmark court decision Abor he did not single out the court As the focus of his criticism about secular interpretations of the first although last month Meese sharply recent supreme court decisions As being guided More by policy choices than by constitutional in a speech to the american bar association on july Meese said the courts adherence to strict neutrality Between Church and state would have struck the founding generation As somewhat in major the court barred states and the Federal government from paying Public school teachers to teach classes in parochial and prohibited stat sponsored moments of silent a photo funeral arrangements Texas death Row inmate Charles Rumbaugh holds the miniature coffin he made from matches and in which he wants his cremated remains placed after his the coffin will then be Given to the woman who coauthored a Book about his life number death Rumbaugh is facing execution by lethal injection on september Lith for the 1975 murder of Amarillo jewelry store owner Michael Florida police beet up Security to combat Highway robberies Miami a a Public outcry has forced authorities to dispatch police add patrols and repair broken lights along portions of interstate 95 in South where Highway robbers in mounting numbers Are ambush ing the amount of injuries and assaults in the last two months is its said Florida Highway patrol Noel the patrol reported 97 Highway robberies in Dade county since most occur bet Wen and authorities said the modern Day highwaymen attack Driver alongside their disabled throw rocks through windshields As motorists sit helpless in bumper bumper traffic and place objects in the such As tire rims and that motorists run the Driver pulls Over to change the tire or look at the the robbers Are hiding in the foliage on the shoulder of the said patrol the who make off with Cash and occasionally beat motorists with guns before running police the robbers find motorists easy prey because Many lights along 195 Are burned out and fences along the interstate Are in Kathleen of her Mother Nancy and Nancy Don were driving along 195 at 940 on june 21 when their car hit a tire rim just before an exit i swerved to miss Kathleen Puchhas said wednes i didst and the tire went she pulled the car to the shoulder and All three got As i looked there were three very with one pointed a gun at my another Guy opened the Drivers Side and pulled our purses the who had been hiding behind a Grassy made away with at least incensed at the danger along the have spoken out and prompted the state department of transportation to change burned out lights Dot Highway Engineer Gale Evans said the repairs would take but by wednesday Crews had fixed about 60 lights along a two mile strip of Evans Evans said the Dot is also considering repairing fences along the interstate and cutting shrubs where bandits the Highway patrol assigned 12 units to patrol a seven mile stretch of As Well As 6 Miles of 1195 and one mile of where robberies have also said patrol John officers also have been dispatched to pose As stranded motorists on the shoulders and medians to arrest robbers before they since state troopers have arrested 23 one Man committed 19 robberies in a three week period on 195 before being arrested by a Decoy Baker but unlike Stagecoach bandits who went out of business with the Advent of the Baker said today Highway robbers probably will always find we want to put a Stop to but theres no Way to completely eliminate he woman files suit after priest reveals confession in court Sands of time san Francisco up a woman who admitted to her priest that she had embezzled from Church funds says in a million suit the Clergyman violated the confidentiality of the confessional by testifying against Sheridan Ann an unemployed was convicted of grand theft in june and sentenced to seven months in she is appealing the Case and has made full she said her Patrick said Edwards was compelled by financial problems to take from the Treasury or the Wom ens Guild at Stephens episcopal where she served As Volunteer who filed suit said she went to the priest because 1  take the pressure i needed to talk to and the Only person i could speak to was my she said she went to the office of Rector William Rankin and she said she expected absolution and secrecy but he stood up and shouted at he said this was a Case of grand that i needed to find a Good attorney and that he intended to Tell the Church Edwards was arrested shortly she said i feel very Ive been an Episcopalian All my 1 know if i go to a his first concern is for my pastoral and spiritual the suit seeks million in damages and accuses Rankin and other Church officials of invasion of breach of duties and causing her emotional in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today 1945 anguished Tokyo broadcasts reported that Hiroshima was completed destroyed in one atomic clap of doom and practically every living thing in the City of people was Russia declared War on the White House 30 years ago today 1955 the first International Congress on the peaceful uses of atomic Energy opened in president Eisenhower issued a statement from Washington the atom stands ready to become mans tireless 20 years ago 1965 Nancy actress of the died of natural causes in her Manhattan Carroll was said to have been the first woman to sing and dance in a feature talking Abby Irish Rose in to years ago 1975 president Francisco a Costa Gomes swore in a new left Wing transitional Cabinet in