In your editorial of Feb. 1, “Concerns About Educational Vouchers,” you mention “church-state separation” and “separation of Church and state” several times.
Where are these terms either in our Declaration of Independence or the United States Constitution? Where do these terms come from? If they are in our state constitution, then are they to protect the church from the state or the state from the church?
Currently, all tax dollars are being used to support the teaching of religion in public schools. That religion is secular humanism.
Yes, there are Christian teachers in public education who have a positive influence on young people. However, when the teachings of our Creator, Savior and Judge, Jesus Christ, are taken out of school, man becomes one created by chance – his own savior and his own final judge.
Currently religion is being promoted in public education in the form of secular humanism.
It is my opinion, and possibly the opinion of others, that we should put our money back in the hands of parents and let them use it to educate their own children as they deem best.
Why would the free market system which enables us to enjoy an economy unsurpassed by the rest of the world not give us an education system unsurpassed by the rest of the world?
Competition has been proven again and again to be helpful. Maybe it could be good for our schools also.
I appreciate your use of a founding father of America, Patrick Henry,, when you mention people being taxed and the money given to a church. No tax, however, is being proposed to give to a church.
We are already taxed. The idea is to give this money back to the parents for them to choose. If they desire public education as it is now, OK. If they desire Jewish, Roman Catholic, Christian, etc. OK.
Why should all be forced to learn secular humanism?
Micah Williamson
Smiths, Ala.
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