[ex-snook]

I think maybe you overlook the effect of the courts on schools. I attended HS in NYC [quite a while ago] and before every assembly we saluted the flag and read from the Bible usually the 23rd Psalm. If a school tried that today they would be slapped with a law suit. Even student speech at graduations is dampened. School administrators can't spend their time defending lawsuits so out goes anything that has religion because it offends someone - separation of Church and State, you know.

The country is not slouching toward Gemorrah any longer, it is speeding. The Constitution has been turned on its ear. Instead of protecting religion from government, it is protecting government from religion.

[wintertime]

I think maybe you overlook the effect of the courts on schools. I attended HS in NYC [quite a while ago] and before every assembly we saluted the flag and read from the Bible usually the 23rd Psalm. If a school tried that today they would be slapped with a law suit
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Any government powerful enough to **force** prayer and the 23 Psalm on non-believing children is powerful enough to force atheism on them as well.

The very concept of compulsory government schooling was flawed from the beginning. These government schools arose out of the vicious anti-Catholic sentiment of the mid 19th century. Government schools then were essentially Protestant Christian schools funded by compulsory taxation. ( A review of 19th century textbooks is proof enough of that.)

Ah....But what the anti-Papists did not figure upon was that any government powerful enough to force Protestantism on Catholic children was powerful enough to force atheistic Marxism on 20th and 21st century children.

The very concept of government schooling is fundamentally a freedom of conscience abomination! We must not attempt to reform the unreformable in an effort to reclaim the culture. We must do the following:

1) Get your own children out of the government schools.

2) Work to close down every atheistic government school in the nation! ( That means **all** of them!)

3) Set up a system of tuition-free, private, conservative one room school houses, mini-schools, and homeschool cooperatives. If our nation's colleges and universities can have endowments in the 100 BILLIONS, sure conservatives ( Christian and non-Christian) could fund private conservative K-12 schools for every child in the nation.

I fear though that it is too late to save our culture and our freedom.