The Nation - News from Oct. 23, 1986
Testimony ended in the trial of a suit challenging the influence of so-called “secular humanism” in schoolbooks. U.S. District Judge W. Brevard Hand, who is presiding at the trial in Mobile, Ala., gave no indication of when he might rule. The suit against the Alabama Board of Education was brought by about 600 parents and teachers who contend secular humanism is a religion that permeates Alabama’s textbooks while Christian, Jewish and other faiths are ignored.
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