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Article: Scrap the 'Lemon test,' says Southern Baptists.
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- March 2, 1994
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The social-action agency of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant denomination, is calling on the U. S. Supreme Court to scrap the "Lemon test," a yardstick used to judge the constitutionality of laws defining the relationship of church and state. In a friend-of-the-court brief, the 15-million-member denomination's Christian Life Commission charged that the two-decade-old Lemon test has fostered secularism as well as hostility toward religion rather than the neutrality advocated by the nation's founders.
The commission's call for abandoning Lemon is contained in a brief filed in a New York case, Kiryas Joel Village School District v. ...