The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions.
David BartonAnd you get Thomas Paine, who's the least religious Founding Father saying, you've got to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that.
David BartonWe do have a Godly heritage in America, but we have been robbed - robbed by the 3 percent.
David BartonThat wall is a one directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government.
David BartonLiteracy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else - we are always doing something with it. Its what we choose to do with it that is important. There are a range of contemporary literacies available to us - while print literacy was the first mass media, it is now one of the mass media.
David Barton