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I have written about the growing debate over church-state separation and all the issues tangled within it. But an election Tuesday in California dealt directly with the infusion of “Christian values” into government.
There was a time when the phrase getting “the third degree” was more than a metaphor. A time when a bad cop knew how to use a length of good rubber hose. A time when rogue detectives opened the doors to a confession by hanging a suspect over one—his hands cuffed behind him. That time officially ended forty-four years ago, in 1966.
More and more these days, lawmakers want to butt into the business of schools.
They justify doing it for a lot of reasons — none of them with much value. But they sound good and provide what lawmakers want first and foremost: political fund-raising mantra and votes.
“A Dream Fulfilled? Race, Citizenship, and the Presidential Election of 2008”
hosted by Colonial Williamsburg
Frank Batten Sr.
1927 – 2009
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