Vitale (1962), a highly unpopular decision against a state-devised prayer in New York. That distinction belonged to a fellow atheist, Lawrence Roth, in Engel v. The media naturally sought her out and as the public learned more about her, Murray was demonized as a belligerent, loudmouthed crank-“the most hated woman in America.” She was not, in fact, the first person to challenge school prayer successfully. They can believe in their virgin birth and the rest oftheir mumbojumbo, as long as they don’t interfere with me, my children, my home, my job, my money or my intellectual views.” At a time when religious conviction was often equated with patriotism, Murray’s public statements were regarded as heretical. But I don’t want them praying in ball parks, legislatures, courts and schools. A colorful woman who flouted convention, Murray despised religion: “Ifpeople wantto go to church andbe crazy fools, that’s their business. She first burst onto the national stage in the early 1960s with a lawsuit against the religious exercises her son was subjected to in a Baltimore, Maryland, public school. DIERENFIELD* Throughout her life, Madalyn Murray (O’Hair) tried to obliterate the concept of God and Christianity. “The Most Hated Woman in America”: Madalyn Murray and the Crusade against School Prayer BRUCE J. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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