The greatest threat to religious liberty in America today is the increasingly militant and extreme secular-progressive climate of our state-run education system.
Over the past 12 tumultuous months, there has been a great deal of discussion about the radical ideology being promoted in our schools, and what it means for national unity, public safety, and the health of our politics.
Much less has been said about an issue of perhaps even greater long-term consequence: what this indoctrination in public schools means for the rights of people of faith.
We reached the point at which the heavy-handed enforcement of secular-progressive orthodoxy through government-run schools is totally incompatible with Christianity and other religious traditions in our country. We must confront the reality that it may no longer be fair, practical, or even Constitutional to provide publicly-funded education solely through the vehicle of state-operated schools.
Throughout the history of Western Civilization, it has been generally understood that a true education — as opposed to merely the conveyance of technical skills or vocational know-how — is inherently bound up with religion and morality. It necessarily deals with the big questions. Is there truth? How do we arrive at the truth? What is the end of life? How should we live? Civic Virtue, Moral Virtue, Religion, and Knowledge were always regarded as inextricably interlinked.
