As a new school year gets under way across the country, there’s litigation everywhere in a moral fight over defining good and evil.
A school bulletin board, filled with left-wing propaganda, in a California public school.
Approximately half the U.S. states are suing the Biden administration for rewriting Title IX, the landmark women’s rights legislation, to include boys who identify as girls.
Louisiana is being sued for its new law requiring the Ten Commandments to be placed in all classrooms, and some public schools are pushing back against Oklahoma state superintendent Ryan Walters for his order that the Bible be incorporated into teachers’ lesson plans.
Christians are subject to courtroom interpretations of the Establishment Clause, a provision in the First Amendment which prohibits government from “establishing” a religion.
Proponents of gender ideology, Critical Race Theory and the like pursue their beliefs with religious fervor but with greater freedom to speak, David Barton, founder of Wallbuilders, said on Washington Watch Wednesday.
That can be hard on Christians, Barton told show host Jody Hice, but in these interesting times there are some wins to be counted, too.
“If the evangelical Christians or if Trump were to say we all need evangelical Christian principles in schools, people would go crazy,” Barton said.
“What’s happened, is they have successfully compartmentalized faith in America to only mean Judeo-Christian faith, religious faith, Jews, Christians, evangelicals, etc. That’s never what it was designed to do, but they have done a good job of taking the platform out from under us.”
Barton says the rise of secularism in education has come at the expense of history.
“You can’t even tell a lot of the history anymore because if you did it would be highly Judeo-Christian. The fact that our founding fathers called for 1,400 prayer proclamations to God by 1815, and you’re going to tell me they were atheists, agnostics and deists? The only way you can believe that is if you haven’t been taught history,” he said.
Standing strong in Louisiana, Oklahoma
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry on Sunday said if parents have a problem with the Ten Commandments being displayed in classrooms, they can tell their kids “not to look” at them.
Walters has also been defiant, saying educators who disapprove of his Bible initiative “will comply, and I will use every means to make sure of it.”
Officials in both states believe they can defend their arguments in court.
June marked two years since the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Coach Joseph Kennedy was within his rights to pray at midfield at the conclusion of football games.
“The courts in the last four years have given back America more religious liberty than we’ve had in the last 60 years. Most people are not aware that right now you have 1,200 school districts with 200,000 kids that are taking Bible as a credit course in public schools, and the Bible is the only textbook in the course. There’s a lot of good stuff happening, we just don’t hear that,” Barton said.
While the current executive branch pushes ahead with far-left policy, Barton says he sees a shift in the U.S. judiciary.
Written by Parrish Alford for American Family News ~ August 9, 2024