Thursday, February 29, 2024

The Most Hated American Woman In The 1960s. Hear Her Speak On TV.

This amazingly blunt television program aired locally in South Texas on a TV station in Austin. The two debaters were well known in America at the time and if you read below, both had extraordinarily complicated and disastrous experiences during their lifetimes. Could you imagine this program running on TV today? 

Madalyn Murray O'Hair was an outspoken activist supporting atheism & separation of church and state. In 1963 she founded American Atheists & called herself a "militant feminist". 

O'Hair was known for a lawsuit that challenged the policy of mandatory prayers & Bible reading in Baltimore public schools. The Supreme Court ruled that officially sanctioned mandatory Bible-reading in public schools was unconstitutional. In 1964 Life magazine called her as "the most hated woman in America"....

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