The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions.
David BartonIt is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They knew that religious principles provided morality and self-control - the lifeblood for the survival of any self-governing community.
David BartonIt is interesting to note that during the last ten years Washington's 'Farewell Address' has begun to reappear in college textbooks - minus the four religious warnings.
David BartonThat's exactly what made America so different, we don't have that colonial aspect of let's go conquer somebody else and make our nation bigger and that's because of the faith element.
David BartonThe 1947 Court (Everson v. Board of Education) for the first time had used only Jefferson's metaphor - completely divorced from its context and intent.
David BartonThereโs a passage that I love in Romans 1. โฆ [I]t talks about homosexuality and it says that they will receive in their bodies the penalties of their behavior. โฆ The Bible [is] right every time โฆ and thatโs why AIDS has been something they havenโt discovered a cure for or a vaccine for. โฆ And that goes to what God says, โHey youโre going to bear in your body the consequences of this homosexual behavior.โ
David Barton