Ethics

Injunction Issued in Indiana Released Time Case

By Ed Brayton

I wrote last month about a magistrate judge recommending a preliminary injunction against a released time program in Indiana where kids are let out of school to attend religion classes on school grounds. The federal judge in the case accepted that recommendation and issued the injunction.

The ruling analyzed the situation under both the Lemon test and the Supreme Court's ruling in McCollum, which invalidated a released time program where the religious instruction took place on school property, as opposed to Zorach, where the court upheld a released time program where the religious instruction took place off school property. On the McCollum/Zorach analysis:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 29, 2009 (boomark / email).