Kaplan v. Independent School District of Virginia

I agree that the reading of the Bible in the schools does not require a taxpayer to “support any place of worship.”

The constitution not only says that every man may “worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience” but it says “nor shall any control of or interference with the rights of conscience be permitted.”

“Bights of conscience” means what? By conscience we mean that internal conviction or self-knowledge that tells us that a thing is right or wrong. It is that faculty or power within us which decides on the right or wrong of an act and approves or condemns. It is our moral…