The 1947 Court (Everson v. Board of Education) for the first time had used only Jefferson's metaphor - completely divorced from its context and intent. — David Barton Copy Share Image
In 1967, in DeKalb v. DeSpain, a court (255 F.Supp. 655. N.D.Ill. 1966.) took a 4-line nursery rhyme used by a K-5 kindergarten class and declared the nursery rhyme unconstitutional. The court explained that although the word 'God' was not… — David Barton Copy Share Image
The Founders believed that pluralism survived only within the concept of religious liberty espoused by American Christianity. — David Barton Copy Share Image
“Another aspect of behavior directly impacted by the removal of religious principles was morality. Recall that both George Washington and Fisher Ames had warned… — David Barton Copy Share Image
The Court explained the problem with his writings (People v. Ruggles. 1811.): an attack on Jesus Christ was an attack on Christianity; and an… — David Barton Copy Share Image
The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions. — David Barton Copy Share Image
There’s a passage that I love in Romans 1. … [I]t talks about homosexuality and it says that they will receive in their bodies… — David Barton Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note that during the last ten years Washington's 'Farewell Address' has begun to reappear in college textbooks - minus the… — David Barton Copy Share Image
The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation. — David Barton Copy Share Image
That's exactly what made America so different, we don't have that colonial aspect of let's go conquer somebody else and make our nation bigger… — David Barton Copy Share Image
“It’s interesting that many of the best instructors in early America were Scottish Presbyterians. As historian George Marsden affirmed, “[I]t is not much of… — David Barton Copy Share Image
“I have never seen a contemporary history book that informs students that witch trials were also occurring across the world at that time with… — David Barton Copy Share Image
Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else - we… — David Barton Copy Share Image
![“There’s a passage that I love in Romans 1. … [I]t talks about homosexuality and it says that they will receive in their bodies the penalties of their behavior. … The Bible [is] right every time … and that’s why AIDS has been something they haven’t discovered a cure for or a vaccine for. … And that…” quote by David Barton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2a6/david-barton-18163_aids_there-s-a-passage-that-i-love-in-romans_890071.jpg)
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