19th Century Values, Really!

It’s great to be reading Rick Casey’s column in the Chronicle again. See this one:

http://feeds.chron.com/~r/houstonchronicle/metrocasey/~3/195376829/5352710.html

He reports on Texas Education Agency Science Director Chris Comer’s resignation under fire from former Bush staffer Lizette Reynolds and other promulgators of Creationism. He then gives a sampling of examples from American history of people who had to fight for the right to freely practice their religion.

And he’s not talking Hindu or Hopi here, this is strictly Christians fighting.

If you read nothing else here, check out this from the Ohio Supreme Court in 1869:

"When Christianity asks the aid of government beyond mere impartial protection, it denies itself. Its laws are divine and not human. Its essential interests lie beyond the reach and range of human governments. United with government, religion never rises above the merest superstition; united with religion, government never rises above the merest despotism; and all history shows us that the more widely and completely they are separated, the better it is for both."