EDUC240- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 50 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Minersville school district v. gobitis (1940): background, walter gobitis instructed kids (lillian and william) - a student who had recently converted to become a jehovah"s witnesses. Jehovah"s witnesses: put them at odds with pledge- a tribute (they view pledge as bowing down to the country, moses in exodus --> refuses to bow down (you don"t bow down to anyone but. As a jehovah"s witness he said that pledging the flag was against the. Bible: a major theme for jehovah"s witnesses, we"re asking them to participate in a ritual in which they bow down to idols; asking them to violate a core principle, a matter of conscious. Lillian and william gobitis expelled for not saluting the flag (their family vs the school district: minersville, pennsylvania - a predominately roman catholic ( a lot of tensions between the. Indirect, it effects them but not discriminatory: unintentional, incidental byproduct of a law with a larger purpose (national cohesion)
