Newt Gingrich: Hostility to Christianity Growing in Schools

Sunday, October 4, 2009 5:37 PM

This is typical right wing histrionics designed to play to the evangelical and fundamentalist base of the GOP. The US was founded as a secular nation and over our history Americans have had to reign in religious activities that were inappropriate.


This included the efforts of private schools to get public school bussing and the public financing of text books. There have been more than 50 court cases in the Federal courts that established the legal doctrine of the separation of church and state that is based upon the Establishment Clause of the US Constitution. 

Some religious activities are allowed in schools particularly when more than one religion is represented. 

A virulent hostility toward religion is threatening the very fabric of American liberty and prosperity: That's what former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and his wife, Callista, are saying in their thought-provoking new documentary, Rediscovering God in America II: Our Heritage.

In an exclusive Newsmax TV interview, Gingrich contends that American culture has been marked by "a steady increase in hostility to religion over the last 70 or 80 years. He thinks this a profound challenge, both to Western Civilization and to America as we know it."

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