A pair of landmark Supreme Court cases in the 1960s, however, put the fear of litigation into school principals, and a new era in education began, where advocates for the “separation of church and state” used the courts to push the Bible out of classrooms.
This foundational divide in U.S. history was only highlighted by Barack Obama’s controversial remark in 2006, “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation.”
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2 comments:
Wrong again
As an atheist I don't have a problem with an elective bible class being taught in public schools. If someone wants to take the class let them.
The problem that I have is when they try and insert biblical studies into science classes, it has no place there in a class that is based on observable evidence based facts.
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