O'Hair filed a lawsuit with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in regards to the Apollo 8 Genesis reading. O'Hair wished the courts to ban US astronauts — who were all Government employees — from public prayer in space. Though the case was rejected by the US Supreme Court for lack of jurisdiction,it caused NASA to be skittish about the issue of religion throughout the rest of the Apollo program.
O'Hair constantly challenged and publicly debated religious leaders and public figures on a variety of issues. She described herself as a "sexual libertarian" and stated that children in sixth grade should be given sex education and allowed to have intercourse without supervision or restriction. She felt that relationships between people, such as emotional or sexual relationships, were not open to any kind of supervision by other people and especially not by the government
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madalyn_Murray_O'Hair
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winger...your link didn't work. I did find the wikipedia article on her with a manual search.
It is an amazing story of her life. She was very intelligent, but she also sounds like she was off center or mentally ill in the lengths she took to stand for what she believed in.
While sixth grade is at least a "tad" too young for intercourse, I have to admit, I too believe the government has no business to dictate over relationships between people or their sexual practices.
Thanks for pointing me to the article. Strange story.
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