Title: Why the religious right is wrong about separation of church & state /
Authors: Boston, Rob, 1962-
Publisher: Prometheus Books,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Church and state United States; Religious right United States
Abstract: Completely revised and updated, this second edition is packed with information to help activists defend church-state separation.
Contents: Setting the stage: separation of church and state under attack -- In the beginning: church-state relations before America -- Made in America: the evolution of church-state separation in the United States -- The De Facto Protestant establishment: church-state relations in the late Nineteenth-Century America -- Religion in the public schools: the issue that won't go away -- Government aid to religious schools: a taxing issue -- Polygamy, pledges, and peyote: free exercise disputes -- Symbols and sunday laws: other types of church-state problems -- Thy kingdom come: Christian reconstructionism -- Preserving church-state separation in your own community: suggestions for the citizen-activist -- Final thoughts: the end of separation? -- Appendix 1: Common myths about the separation of church and state -- Appendix 2: Thomas Jefferson's 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists -- Appendix 3: James Madison's 1875 memorial and remonstrance against religious assessments.