Lillian Gobitis just died

[rbrown1205]

http://www.cato.org/blog/thank-you-mrs-klose

September 9, 2014 12:06PM

Thank You, Mrs. Klose

By Walter Olson

 

Thank you for standing up for your right, and that of other Americans, not to be coerced: 

Lillian Gobitis Klose, who as a school-age member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses refused to salute the U.S. flag with her classmates, a controversial act of conscience that set off a legal tug of war in the 1930s and ’40s that ultimately bolstered the First Amendment right to religious expression, died Aug. 22 in Fayetteville, Ga. She was 90

[Life4u]

A fight well fought and won. For eternity she will never go through any thing that brings pain, fear or sadness. Eternal happiness and joy for her now. Revelation 21:3-5.

[Musky]

Good article here:

 

http://jwtalk.net/forums/topic/16770-minersville-girl-made-legal-history/

[rbrown1205]

Oh, Musky, I did not know that you had started a thread already!!!  I did not recognize the "Minersville girl" as a description of Lillian Gobitis - I should have though.  We were both trumped, so to speak, by the brothers, who also have an article with a picture in it.  Her brother William had already died.

[Qapla]

Actually, there are currently 4 threads about this subject:

 

http://jwtalk.net/forums/topic/16770-minersville-girl-made-legal-history/?hl=lillian (Started August 31, 2014)

http://jwtalk.net/forums/topic/16888-jworg-lillian-gobitas-klose-schoolgirl-at-center-of-historic-1940-supreme-court-case-dies-at-90/?hl=lillian (Started September 7, 2014)

http://jwtalk.net/forums/topic/16922-interesting-use-of-the-term-ms-on-jworg-news/?hl=lillian (Started September 10, 2014)

http://jwtalk.net/forums/topic/16984-lillian-gobitis-just-died/?hl=lillian (Started September 14, 2014)

 

Perhaps this would help:

 

Edited September 15, 2014 by Qapla

[Musky]

I posted mine, the first one, before it went up on Jw.org.))