RELIGIONLAW Digest - 28 Jun 1997 to 29 Jun 1997

[Brian D. Leebrick]

For a Fourth of July service, a guest preacher at my local church
argued that our current understanding of church/state issues is far
outside the Founders intent.  To substantiate this argument, he
refered to a 1811 US Supreme Court case in which (according to this
preacher) a public school student was disciplined with jail time for
making utterances disrespectful of Christ.  The Court argued that
this is a Christian nation, and so attaching Christ was attacking the
nation and that the student could be disciplined under what amounts
to treason.

I couldn't find any such case.  Does the fact senario ring a bell for
any one?
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Brian D. Leebrick                    Student
afn46369 at afn.org                  College of Law
leebric at nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu   University of Florida
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