(DOWNLOAD) "Going to Hell in a Handbasket: Courts and Religion in America." by Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Going to Hell in a Handbasket: Courts and Religion in America.
- Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 293 KB
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[O]ften the news of American public schools is about plummeting SAT scores, gay and lesbian clubs, body piercing, robbery and sexual assaults of teachers and students, along with an infusion of radical anti-American and antiwar bias of the liberal teachers' popular culture. And sometimes we see news of other things that are more heartbreaking, such as the tragedies at Columbine, Jonesboro, Springfield, Paducah, Pearl and other places. And yes, we know where it all comes from (Robertson, 2004, 105). Where "it" all seems to come from are the decisions American federal and state courts, in which, according to Robertson and other leaders of the New Christian Right, religion and morality have been banished from the schools and the public square. The American judiciary's abandonment of "Biblical Natural Law" beginning is the early 1960s is responsible for the rise of sexually transmitted diseases among the young, the decline of educational achievement, the erosion of family stability and the increase in the number of reported violent crimes (Barton, 2000, 242-246). The decisions of the federal courts are particularly alarming because they are the product of an unelected, unaccountable set of liberal elites in black robes. These decisions thwart the will of the representatives of the people thereby undermining the core principle of a republican form of government. From the floor of the United States Senate, Richard Shelby denounced "activist judges" who have "worked diligently to restrict our rights to express our religious beliefs under the guise of separation of church and state." (1) Every December Americans get to see for themselves the latest forays in the secular "War on Christmas," in which courts seems to be allied with the wrong side. For the New Christian Right the time is now to end the "judicial tyranny" (Traditional Values Coalition, 2005).