Wisconsin State Court (1890) in the case of Weiss v. District Board of School District No. 8 of Edgerton, 76 Wis. 177, 44 N.W. 967 (Wis. 1890), stated:
<The term "sectarian instruction," in the constitution, manifestly refers exclusively to instruction in religious doctrines, and the prohibition is only aimed at such instruction as is sectarian....Hence, to teach the existence of a
Supreme Being, of infinite wisdom, power, and goodness, and that it is the highest duty of all men to adore, obey, and love Him, is not sectarian, because all religious sects so believe and teach. The instruction becomes sectarian when it goes further, and inculcates doctrine or dogma, concerning which the religious sects are in conflict.> 1890WI001
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Endnotes:
1890WI001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Wisconsin State Court, 1890, in the case of Weiss v. District Board of School District No. 8 of Edgerton, 76 Wis. 177, 44 N.W. 967 (Wis. 1890), p. 973. Elizabeth Ridenour, Public Schools-Bible Curriculum (Greensboro, N.C.: National Council On Bible Curriculum, 1996), p. 36. Robert K. Skolrood, The National Legal Foundation, letter to National Council on the Bible Curriculum in Public Schools, Sept. 13, 1994, p. 10.