Those groups may represent the people making complaints, but I was talking about the actual people with complaints. For example, the ACLU represented the plaintiffs in Engel v. Vitale* , but the five parents listed as plaintiffs included two who were Jewish, a Unitarian , a member of the Society for Ethical Culture and a person who was listed in the court papers as an atheist but later described himself as “religious but not a churchgoer”.
- a landmark Supreme Court case decided in 1962 , before O’Hair’s lawsuit was filed