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8 TEXAS JEWISH POST, DALLAS, THURSDA Y, OCTOBER 15, 1992- IN OUR 46TH YEAR!
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By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
NEW YORK, (JTA)-The
U.S. Supreme Court, on the
first day of its new term last
Monday, agreed to hear a
case that is certain to have
important ramifications for
the Jewish community.
The case involves an evan-
gelical church that sued the
Center Moriches School Dis-
trict, on New York’s Long
Island, for the right to show a
movie with a Christian theme
on school premises after
school hours.
The church, Lamb’s
Chapel, argues that the
school’s refusal is a censor-
ship of religious speech and
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violation of its constitutional
right to the free exercise of
religion. The church lost its
suit in federal district court
and on appeal, when the U .S.
Court of Appeals for the 2nd
Circuit ruled that a school
building is not generally open
public forum, so that exclud-
is the greater danger?”
Agudath Israel of America,
an Orthodox group, however,
is decidedly in favor of the
court allowing religious
groups to “occasionally” use
public school property for
activities after school hours,
according to David Zwiebel,
r
ing religious groups does not the organization’s legal
violate the Constitution. counsel
According to the legal di-
rectors of Jewish organiza-
tions, many of which have
not yet decided their official
position on the case, the Su-
preme Court is likely to issue
a ruling that will have sub-
stantial implications for the
Jewish community.
The two most important
aspects of the Lamb’s Chapel
case could both be detrimen-
tal to the Jewish community’s
interests, said Marc Stem,
legal director for the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress.
If the court rules in favor
of the evangelical group, it
could lead to a situation
where all religious organiza-
tions claim the right to rent
space at public schools, even
if their aim is to target stu-
dents with their message.
The case really centers on
free-speech issues, rather
than the church-state issues,
and whether a public school
after teaching hours is a “lim-
ited public forum,” said
Stem.
The legal definition of a
limited public forum includes
the fomm’s right to limit the
type of speech expressed
within it, based on the
speech’s content. For ex-
ample, all religious speech
or political speech can be
prohibited.
So if the court decides that
a public school, after school
hours, is limited public fo-
rum, it could have broad im-
plications for other govern-
ment-supported limited pub-
lic forums, such as public
auditoriums, or even govern-
ment-run newsletters and
newspapers, said Stem.
“There’s a danger if you’re
going to allow government
to start screening categories
of speech, because it could
be speech that we want to
have heard,” he said. “Which
counsel
The Court’s decision will
have “very, very broad ap-
plications in our commu-
nity,” he said.
Yeshivas often want to rem
out public school space foi
their graduations, athletic'
recreation, Chanukah plays
or rallies, he said. Or a syna-
gogue, if it needed to use
other space temporarily,
might want to rent out
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school gymnasium.
“All of these ought to be
controlled by what the Su-
preme Court agrees in this
case,” he said.
The Supreme Court also
agreed Monday to consider
case called Zobrest vs
Catalina Foothills School
district, in which a deaf stu-
dent at a Catholic School is
claiming the right to a sign-
language interpreter paid for
by the school district
Lower courts mled that i!
the Arizona school district
provided the student with an
interpreter in parochial
school, it would create a
“Symbolic union” between
church and state.
The case gives the Su
preme Court a chance to re-
consider its approach to the
constitutional barriers be-
tween the government and
religious expression.
The court decided not to]
hear another case followed'
by Jewish groups, New York
State School Boards Asso-
ciation vs. Sobol, which
raised the question of
whether mandated religiou
representation on a public
school committee breaches'
the church-state barrier.
A regulation requiring
schools to include represen-
tatives of religious organiza-
tions on school AIDS advi
sory councils was upheld by
the New York State Court o;
Appeals.
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