In 1962, the Supreme Court banned organized prayer from public schools. Since then, federal, state, and local courts and officials, including public school administrators, have joined in a nationwide search and destroy mission for student religious practices.

The establishment clause was transformed from a shield for religion into a cover for the official sanctioning of religious tolerance.

Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.

Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.

The zealous disdain for religion in American jurisprudence amounts to intolerance. Keith Fournier of the American Center for Law and Justice concludes that 'the ones not being tolerated are religious people who dare make any kind of religious reference or take any kind of religious posture outside the private arena.

The Republican party is not a church. It does not promulgate doctrine and then exclude those who fail to share it. But political parties must stand for something, or they will be unable to generate enthusiastic support from the volunteers needed to burn shoe leather and calories winning competitive elections.

The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith.