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Preachers of this conservative message have long sought to disseminate it to millions by means of radio and television. About 1,000 of the 9,642 U.S. radio stations have a religious format, and the vast majority of their programming is Evangelical or Fundamentalist in tone. The same is true...
PUBLIC AND CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS. Fundamentalists over the past generation have come to believe that public schools are a major force in establishing secular humanism. The religious right leads in agitating to restore prayer to the classroom (a cause favored by 69% of Americans, according to Gallup) and in seeking to...
Recently, however, Mr. Moynihan voted for a bill providing that grants for magnet schools may not be used for "courses of instruction the substance of which is secular humanism." It is clear that he read the bill, because he defended his vote as "the price I had to pay to...
I'm willing to allow that, if Mr. Moynihan doesn't know, it's likely no one else does either. But the Department of Education, which has charge of implementation, has instructed local school districts to determine for themselves what secular humanism means. Thus the law has created a host...
The closing down of serious educational options for public school students is disappointing, but the reform movement has even more frightening aspects. Ultraconservative religious and political factions are gaining momentum, passing sweeping public education reforms in an attempt to add their particular views on society to the of "creation science...