Legal Opinion · Dissent

Murrow Indian Orphans Home v. Childers

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided June 11, 1946No. 32620Published

1DissentRiley, J.

It is said a new idea is painful, even to the intelligentsia, so I shall deal only with tragedies of history, also sometimes voluminous and burdensome. Union of church and state is often productive of religious strife, persecutions, and so, horrible to freedom. The reason for dealing with this aspect of history is that some say it can’t happen here. The men who are Justices of the Supreme Court constitute the personnel of an instrumentality of government; they are expendable and so they may not be here if it does happen. The instrumentality and the free government, like Tennyson’s brook, must…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. West Virginia State Board of Education v. BarnetteSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
  2. Gurney v. FergusonSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1941
  3. Riley v. CarterSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1933
  4. Simpson v. HillSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1927
  5. Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Sisters of the Sorrowful MotherSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1939

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