Against the Gates of Hell - Chapter 15 - Stanley R Rader - 1980

Stanley R Rader

Reviewing the language of recent decisions by the United States Supreme Court, it can hardly be doubted that the state of California has thudded a battering ram against the wall separating Church and State. These rulings emphasize that government is not only forbidden to intrude into religious organizations, but that it cannot engage in activity that even threatens an entanglement in church affairs or religious matters. Recently the Court ruled, that government subsidies to help pay salaries of parochial school teachers were unconstitutional because such arrangements would permit state officials to examine religious school records and decide which expenses were religious and which were secular. The Court's opinion, delivered by Chief Justice Warren Burger, stated that this "post audit power to inspect and evaluate a church-related school's financial records" would result in "an intimate and continuing relationship between church and state." - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library