Religious Teaching in Public Schools
The associate editor of the Arena, in a communication to the Washington Post (April 24) on the matter of religious teaching in the public schools, says, "Of course no one who is at once logical and mentally honest will deny that to teach religion or religious morals in the public schools would be, in effect, not only a union of church and state, and, consequently, a violation of the spirit of our Constitution, but a firm and certain step toward the ultimate subversion of all hope of ideal democracy. No one who is intellectually hospitable will deny that concerning the acceptance or the rejection of religion all should have equal rights; that in the realm of conscience the humblest becomes a king; and that, accordingly, to teach to all at the expense of all anything of a religious nature to which even the smallest minority objects would itself be not only immoral, but unjust and tyrannical. This and a great deal more, in the expression of which verbs would lose vitality and adjectives color, goes without saying."