Letters March 22, 1952 Issue

LETTERS TO THE PRESS FROM CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEES ON PUBLICATION

Denver, Colorado Denver Democrat

The Denver Democrat carried a reprint from the Grand Junction Sentinel bearing the headline "Sectarian Censorship of Schools." As this article does not correctly report the incident, probably because more complete information was not available to the Sentinel, and also because it implies that Christian Scientists, in requesting exemption for their children from some phases of compulsory health instruction, are imposing censorship over the content of public education, space is respectfully requested for a fuller explanation.

Christian Scientists, in requesting freedom to rely on spiritual healing of disease, have no desire to interfere with the rights of others. ... For example, when the New York State Department of Education omitted from its examinations in the elective subject of biology questions concerning the germ theory of disease, this was more than Christian Scientists had requested. In fact, rather than do injustice to students taking the full course of study, the Christian Science Committee on Publication for New York recommended that examination questions be made up without regard for the fact that Christian Science pupils had been excused from some portions.

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