The Nation - News from Sept. 25, 1986
Arguments ended in a lawsuit over Tennessee’s textbooks brought by seven fundamentalist families, with one parent asking Christians to pray for the federal judge who has given himself 30 days to decide the case. “I encourage Christians everywhere to hold Judge (Thomas) Hull up in their prayers,” Vicki Frost said on the courthouse steps in Greeneville after closing arguments by attorneys for the families and the Hawkins County school board. Frost and 13 other parents have objected to the pacifist, magic, feminist and other anti-Christian themes they said they found in the 1983 Holt, Rinehart, Winston readers.
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