Our Christian Heritage Has Been Eliminated from Public Schools Curriculum
So much so, that the Texas school board has issued directives to include it, and it's raising quite the controversy. Evangelical leaders are encouraging the board but other groups like the ACLU are threatening lawsuits. For more information, see the following article from the Christian Post.
Teaching the importance of Christianity in U.S. history is common
sense, asserted several evangelical leaders in defending a new Texas
law that requires public schools to incorporate Bible literacy into the
curriculum.
Americans can disagree on a personal level with what Christianity
claims to be true, wrote Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family,
but they “cannot question” the “central importance” of those Christian
truths to the men who help founded the nation.
“Understand America’s history without any reference to her Christian
heritage? You might as well try to tell the story of Huck Finn without
mentioning the Mississippi River,” Daly wrote in a column posted in The
Washington Post.
See the rest of the article from the Christian Post