"The church shall be separate from the state, and the school from the church"

Sound familiar?  This is the 'freedom' offered to Christian youth in the public school system.  Often advocated by the ACLU and carefully guarded by school district lawyers.

Only one problem with it:  The words come from the old, failed Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.), Article 52. The words are also found in the Humanist Manifestos (http://www.jcn.com/manifestos.html), a self-proclaimed new religion designed specifically to replace Christianity.

The Constitution of the United States of America does not contain the words 'separation of church and state.'

Instead, our First Amendment states:  "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

Can you see who is protected, and from what, by these words?

The citizen is protected from government, not the other way around.

Government is not free to limit or decide what we believe.

Citizens are totally free to take their firmly held beliefs into the marketplace of ideas in our society. That marketplace includes the workplace, government institutions such as Congress, and the public schools.

We do not want government teaching or advocating a particular religion, and certainly the public schools would do no better teaching Christianity than they do geography or any other of the subjects in which American students typically lag behind in other developed nations.

But there is no Constitutional provision, nothing, to limit a student's right to express his or her faith while at school.

Encourage your student to speak out!

Is there any reason you should allow a hostile, replacement religion to impose its views on your school, your student and his or her classmates?

Do you prefer freedom, or censorship of your beliefs?

Take a stand!


-Bob Larimer