as you sit here and listen to those presentations that have occurred, what's your sense of this, judith? so my father would take us to school either sunday night or early monday morning, and we would stay until the weekend. Extensive testimony showed the government actors believed Roncarelli was disrupting the court system, causing civil disorder, and was therefore not entitled to the liquor licence. There are 3 items available. The decision went on to add, "Our tradition teaches tolerance, our philosophy teaches tolerance, our Constitution practices tolerance, let us not dilute it". but they weren't cruel to us. By 1943 more than 2,000 Jehovahs Witnesses had been expelled from schools in all forty-eight states. and it's given me a lot of privileges over the years. Judging Jehovahs Witnesses: Religious Persecution and the Dawn of the Rights Revolution. >> yes. >> what time period was this, louise? how she viewed life and how life viewed her. it was a gobitis. Rather than ignoring what was neither an act of defiance nor a disruption in the schools, the school board adopted a regulation allowing for the expulsion of any students who would not salute the flag. This decision led to increased persecution of Witnesses in the U she came out right after that and took us to the principal's office. we saw this in this wonderful presentation that preceded this. of allegiance that was prevalent in all public schools? Get the item you ordered or your money back. Having concluded that the flag salute requirement was motivated by a desire to provide a means for the persecution of children for conscience sake, Maris ordered the children readmitted to the public schools, and a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed this decision. and so that was i think a week later, we had a meeting with the school board, at which time the assistant to mr. covington, bill jackson, met with us and helped us in the procedure to explain our position. >> louise in your world, gee, you spent two and a half years in lakewood, new jersey, as i recall, at a kingdom school. [citation needed] Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone once quipped, "I think the Jehovah's Witnesses ought to have an endowment in view of the aid which they give in solving the legal problems of civil liberties."[29]. >> eventually. He thought it far better that the schools find some sensible adjustment of school discipline in order that the religious convictions of these children may be spared than to approve legislation which operates to repress the religious freedom of small minorities.. . West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943), Pledge of Allegiance and the First Amendment, Jehovahs Witnesses and Religious Liberty, Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U.S. 296 (1940). just curious. Gobitas Children Flag Salute 1940 Supreme Court Jehovah Regimental Flags in Other Collectable Flags.