Bill Maher ended "Real time with Bill Maher" with this monologue:
[T]he Founding Fathers would have hated your guts…and what’s more, you would have hated them. They were everything you despise. They studied science, read Plato, hung out in Paris, and thought the Bible was mostly bullshit.
Maher is right on. There are reasons the Texas Department of education wants Thomas Jefferson out of their text books and Benjamin Franklin said "lighthouses are more useful than churches."
Also, President John Adams signed the Treaty of Tripoli that says states in article 11 that the US is a secular state.
No Democratic politician would ever says this because they are afraid of offending the Christian community in the US. You would not hear this discussion in high school about the Founders either because HS teachers try to avoid controversy.
You would hear the real story about the founders in college. The professors there have academic freedom because of tenure. They are free to tell the true story of America's Founders.
Is it surprising the GOP has been attacking the tenure of high school teachers in Florida. If they are successful, the universities will be next.
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