Would-be theocrats are at large. In Chicago, a group is distributing Ten Commandment book covers and, shockingly, the head of the public schools approves. I view the Ten Commandments as history's value statements. Vallas is commending the Total Living Network for distributing 100,000 of these book covers to schoolchildren. Vallas' words enraged Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.
PAW inhabits a universe where students live in dread of hurting the feelings of school officials.
Americans United, PAW and the ACLU are determined to expunge any expression of God or God-based morality from the public domain, as a trip to Americans United's website confirms. There is a relentless escalation of the campaign to evict God from our national life. First, school prayer was forbidden. Then, a moment of silence was rejected. Holiday decorations were removed from classrooms and creches expelled from public parks.