Letters: Jul. 13, 1962

Sir:

Thanks for your interesting, fair and historically sound treatment of the Supreme Court's decision regarding the use of a prayer composed by the New York State Board of Regents for use in public schools [July 6].

In recent years, Americans have been forgetting (or have never learned) the very sound values of the separation of church and state. We hope they will read the latter part of your article carefully.

(MRS.) DOROTHY C. LEIFFER

Evanston, Ill.

Sir: The Board of Regents' prayer was sectarian. It stated or implied four dogmas that form the basis...

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