The Nation - News from Oct. 6, 1986

Fundamentalists who claim public schools are teaching students a godless religion take their case to U.S. District Court in Mobile, Ala., today in a bid to have secular humanism purged from textbooks and curricula. Conservative Christian parents in south Alabama contend that if schools are prohibited from teaching Christianity, Judaism and other religions, they also should be prevented from teaching a religion that sees man as accountable only to mankind. The suit seeks to have 39 social studies and history texts and seven home economics books purged from the Mobile County School system.