Leading the way in this decline is a government-run public school system. While much has been said and written about academic standards and testing results that are among the worst in the developed world, virtually nothing has been said about the failure of public school graduates to discern the difference between right and wrong in matters of morality. Instead, public school students have been taught that there are no moral absolutes; they must not be judgmental; every action can be rationalized; and they must be tolerant. Such concepts open the door to all kinds of mischief and corrupting behavior.
As a consequence, the moral decline of America is not limited to the sexual revolution. This decline permeates our entire social, economic, financial, entertainment, business, legal, and political order.
The State Against Religion reveals that the core philosophy of America's public schools is based on John Dewey's 1933 "Humanist Manifesto." Thirteen instances in that manifesto define Humanism as a religion that has no respect for a supreme being or a moral authority. In 1960 The U.S. Supreme Court also acknowledged that Humanism is a religion.
Through a process of legalized theft, U.S. governments confiscate $350 billion a year from U.S. taxpayers to fund a government-run elementary and secondary school system that espouses the religion of Humanism. This school system functions as a giant adversary against God-fearing religions. Concurrently, the U.S. government denies the right of parents to share in those funds in order to enroll their children in the spiritual and moral environment of schools that do respect a supreme being.
This book documents that, as a result of this coercive and discriminatory policy, U.S. governments violate the First Amendment, the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and the states' rights provisions of the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The author indicts public schools as morally bankrupt and beyond redemption. He concludes with a powerful argument on behalf of vouchers. In a voucher environment, parents would have the right to share in funds that belonged to them in the first place in order to send their children to the school of their own free choosing—public, private, secular, or parochial.
"The State Against Religion" is must reading for everyone concerned about the future of our nation and our posterity.
