American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

United States Supreme Court (1987) in the case of Edwards v. Aquillard, 482 U.S., 96 L.Ed.2d 510, 535 (1987), Justice Powell and O'Connor concurring, stated: <The book [Bible] is, in fact, "the world's all-time best seller" with undoubted literary and historic value apart from its religious content. f.n.-See N.Y. Times, May 10, 1981, Sec. 2, p. 24, col.3; N. McWhirter, 1986 Guiness Book of World Records (the Bible is the world's most widely distributed book).> 1987US001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. 1987US001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). United States...

United States Supreme Court (1986) in the case of Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186, 92 L Ed 2d 140, 106 S. Ct. 2841, p. 149, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger delivered the Court's decision censuring the act of sodomy: <Condemnation of those practices is firmly rooted in Judeo-Christian moral and ethical standards.> 1986US001 <Sodomy was a criminal offense at common law and was forbidden by the laws of the original 13 States when they ratified the Bill of Rights. In 1868, when the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified, all but five of the 37 States in the Union had criminal sodomy...

Gallup Poll (1986) reported: <81% of the American people identify themselves as Christian.> 1986GP001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. 1986GP001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Gallup Poll, 1986. Tim LaHaye, Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1987), p. 70. Paul Vitz, Censorship-Evidence of Bias in Our Children's Textbooks (Ann Arbor, MI: Servant Books, 1986), p. 87.

United States Supreme Court (1985) in the case of Lynch v. Donnelly, 465 U.S. 668, 669-670, 673 (1985), Chief Justice Warren Burger rendered the Court's opinion upholding that the city of Pawtucket, R.I. did not violate the Constitution by displaying a Nativity scene. The decision noted that presidential orders and proclamations from Congress have designated Christmas as a national holiday in religious terms since 1789: <The city of Pawtucket, R.I., annually erects a Christmas display in a park....The creche display is sponsored by the city to celebrate the Holiday recognized by Congress and national tradition and to depict the origins of that...

United States Congress (August 11, 1984) by a Senate vote of 88-11 and a House vote of 337-77, voted the Equal Access Act into law. The Supreme Court upheld it by a vote of 8-1 in the Westside Community Schools v. Mergens case in 1990. Section 4071 (20 U.S.C. 4071-74) explains that denial of equal access is prohibited: <Sec. 4071. (a) It shall be unlawful for any public secondary school which receives Federal financial assistance and which has a limited open forum to deny equal access or a fair opportunity to, or discriminate against, any students who wish to conduct a...