Junk Science
September, 1997
Taking it on FaithBy Wendy Kaminer & James R. PetersenIn 1962 the Supreme Court ruled that organized prayer in public schools violated the Constitution. A year later the high court banned devotional Bible reading in the schools. William Murray, plaintiff in that historic case (his mother was atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair), subsequently became an evangelist. In hearings held before Congress in 1980, he told legislators: ''If it were within my personal power to help return this nation to its right...
