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"Protecting" Students from God.(People For the American Way organization warns against increased Bible study in US schools)(Brief Article)

The New American

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The Internet website of the left-wing People For the American Way warns: "As a new school year begins across the country, parents, students, teachers and school officials in many districts will find themselves confronted by right-wing efforts to violate religious liberty in public schools. These efforts include promotion of improper 'Bible as history' classes or Bible classes that present the Bible from a religious perspective."

Norman Lear's PFAW militant leftists have never had any problems, of course, with school materials attacking the Bible, Christianity, or Christian morality from an anti-religious perspective. The PFAW alarm states further: "Religious right organizations are also trying to convince school districts to display posters in schools proclaiming the message 'In God We Trust.'" Horrors!

Dr. John Bolton, professor of systematic theology at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan, skewers the concerns of the PFAW "protectors" in a commentary for the Acton Institute. ...

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