Weblog: Supreme Court Strikes Down Public Student-Led Prayer
Plus: James Boice dies, reactions to the pardoning of the pope's would-be assassin, and other stories from other media sources.
Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 6/20/00 | posted 6/01/2000 12:00AM
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Court also nixes evolution disclaimer
In other Supreme Court news, the justices voted 6-3 to refuse to review a school policy on teaching evolution. In 1994, the Tangipahoa Parish [Louisiana] school board required teachers, when teaching evolution, to tell students they were doing so "to inform students of the scientific concept and not intended to influence or dissuade the biblical version of creation or any other concept." The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the disclaimer removed because it promoted religion. The Supreme Court allows that decision to stand.
Presbyterian leader James Montgomery Boice dies at 61
The Senior Minister of Philadelphia's Tenth Presbyterian Church died of a liver cancer, diagnosed only eight weeks ago. He also served as president of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, and chairman of the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy from 1977 to 1988.
Tenth Presbyterian Church has more information, including a RealAudio version of his last sermon, at the church's Web site.
Now that pope's shooter is out of Italian prison, we'll probably never know why
Mehmet Ali Agca has given far too many near-answers and not enough real answers about why he shot Pope John Paul II in 1981. Was it a Communist plot? A strike for Kurdish nationalism? Homicidal mania? An irresistible movement of God's will? The Washington Post's Michael Dobbs, who has spent months investigating the possible reasons, suggests as an "informed hunch" that Agca's act was motivated by the far-right terrorist organization the Gray Wolves. It's as good as any. But in The Dallas Morning News, Richard John Neuhaus notes that Why did he shoot? "is hardly the most important question raised. The Catholic writer says the pardon "inevitably raises the question of the status of punishment in Catholic thought. Many Catholics and others who greatly admire this pope are not, or not yet, convinced by his position on capital punishment."
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