Whatever Happened To Truth, Justice & the American Way

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The Weight of Testimony
A compulsory state educational system so
strudures a child's life that if religious exercises
are held to be an impermissible adivity in
schools, religion is placed at an artificial and
state-createddisadvantage.... A refusal to permit
religious exercises thus is seen, not as the
realization ofstate neutrality, but rather as the .
establishment ofa religion ofsecularism.
-- Supreme Court Justice
Potter Stewart, 1964.
In the beginning God created the heaven
and the earth. And the earth was without form,
and void; anddarkness was upon the face ofthe
deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the
face of the waters. And God said, Let there be
light; and there was light ... AndGod saw that it
was good.
-- Lunar Astronaut Frank Borman,
1968, quoting Genesis chapter 1
Our lives should not be carefully
compartmentalized, but ... our trust in and
loyalty to Godshouldbe the integrating factor in
our day-to-day living -- family, education, and
career, politics included. I have often stated
that, while I believe in the separation ofchurch
and state, I do not believe fn the separation of
church and statesman.
-- Reubin Askew, former
Governor of Florida; 1984.
Religion and government are inevitably
related ...
-- President Ronald Reagan, 1984
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