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In this book, award-winning journalist Rob Boston lambastes the zealots of the Religious Right for spreading misinformation about the constitutional principle of the separation of church and state. He reveals how a band of ultraconservative religious groups with a political agenda led primarily by televangelist Pat Robertson is conducting a systematic war against separation of church and state. The tactics of these groups are designed to exploit unfounded fears and turn the American people against the separation principle. They will not rest, Boston says, until the United States has become a theocracy.
To expose the Religious Right's blatant distortions of U.S. history and correct its skewed analysis of legal rulings, Boston objectively reviews the evolution of church-state relations in the United States and looks at how the separation principle has been applied by the courts. He also examines efforts by sectarian groups to win government support for their schools, the school prayer issue, the history of the free exercise of religion, and the controversial role of religion in the public square.
Boston concludes by giving readers strategies for defending the separation principle from attacks by the Religious Right. The author insists that separation of church and state is the best policy for both institutions and asserts that without it the United States cannot remain a free nation.
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