In 1782, the United States Congress voted this resolution: "The congress of the United States
recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools."
William H. McGuffey, author of the McGuffey Reader which was used for over 100 years in
our public schools, stated: "The Christian religion is the religion of our country.
......On its doctrines are founded the peculiarities of our free institutions. From no source has
the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures."
Textbooks have been rewritten to exclude the history of our Christian roots and in 1947, the Supreme
Court banned prayer in public schools.
Then in 1963, the Supreme Court ruled that Bible reading in the public school system was unconstitutional
because "If portions of the New Testament were read without explanation, they could and have been
psychologically harmful to children."
The Ten Commandments were outlawed in public schools by the Supreme Court in 1980, saying
this: "If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments were to have any effect at all, it would
be to induce school children to read them. And if they read them, meditated upon them, and perhaps
venerated and observed them, this is not a permissible objective."