PUBLIC MARKS with tags government & religion

A public-school handout urging young children in Virginia to attend a "Pagan ritual" tomorrow to "celebrate Yule" is sparking objections from concerned parents. "Amazing -- government schools ban orthodox Christianity, but allow an openly pagan organization to proselytize six-year-olds!" one observer who asked for anonymity told WND.

I recently exchanged e-mails with a person who disagreed somewhat strongly with some of my public policy positions. This disagreement was neither unusual nor note-worthy, in and of itself. But it became especially irksome to me when the discussion turned to the liberals' standard fallback position: an outraged accusation of my alleged violation of the Constitution's ironclad requirement for the "Separation of Church and State."

It turns out that liberals are right. For years now, the American government has established state religion: Scientology.

John Adams worried about the corrupting influence government might have on religious practice.

from Baptist Press

With the decline of Judeo-Christian religions, the heart, shaped by what the eye sees, has become the source of people's moral decisions.