I also refer briefly to Hughes' political activity in my The Bible, the
School and the Constitution (OUP, 2012).
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Steven K. Green, J.D., Ph.D.
Fred H. Paulus Professor of Law and Director
Center for Religion, Law and Democracy
Willamette University
900 State St., S.E.
Salem, Oregon 97301
Paul and Mark's posts raise fascinating historical insights. As some of you
know, I have been working on a book for a while on the use of religion in
American elections, so any interesting historical examples you come across like
this, I would greatly appreciate being sent .
But as to the
For those interested in the actual debates, the sacred Gillman, Graber,
Whittington, Volume II has excerpts from John Hughes call for public support
for Catholic Schools and the Episcopal response. Pages 230-34. I probably can
send people a word version if interested.
The story is well told in Diane ravitch's The Great School Wars
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I have written a bit about this in my biography of Millard Fillmore --who was
totally insensitive to issues involving Catholics, Jews, and blacks -- a sort
of equal opportunity bigot.
If was state wide, not just NYC. Fillmore lost the NY Gov. race in 1844 in
part over this issue -- to the
Who opposes clergy political activity?
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On Dec 24, 2014, at 6:21 PM, Scarberry, Mark
mark.scarbe...@pepperdine.edu wrote:
It seems that Bishop John Hughes in New York endorsed political candidates.
Apparently he opposed public funding of schools that taught
