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The Cannon
- David Bozell
- May 1
- 3 min read
Your daily blast of infotainment from ForAmerica.
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Christians Have Rights, Too
The Supreme Court heard arguments in St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond, a case that could redefine religious liberty in American education.
Charter schools are publicly funded but independently run, and participation is voluntary. At the heart of the case is whether a Catholic school can be excluded from Oklahoma’s public charter program simply because of its religious identity. Shutting out St. Isidore from the charter system for being Catholic isn't neutrality — it’s religious discrimination and a direct violation of the Free Exercise Clause.
The Constitution demands neutrality toward religion — not hostility. Denying funding based on religious character crosses the line into outright bias.
The Left hides behind the so-called “separation of church and state.” That phrase appears nowhere in the Constitution, and yet it's used to justify discrimination against Christians. The Left uses twisted logic. Anything that even resembles Christian beliefs must not just be ignored, but banned from public life. It’s asinine. It’s foolish. And it’s wrong.
The Left fights tooth and nail to ban prayer, Bibles, and even the “under God” line in the pledge of allegiance… although they avoid the pledge altogether when they can. The only “religion” they want in the classroom is the secular church. The religion of the state. One that indoctrinates students with big-government socialism, radical gender ideology, and anti-American propaganda. They proudly fly the pride flag, but waving a Christian flag would feel like an exorcism to those who worship at the altar of Leftism.
The Left Is Lying About the Separation of Church and State
“Separation of church and state” is one of the most abused phrases in American politics. It’s not in the Constitution. It’s not even in any of our founding documents. It’s something Thomas Jefferson said in a letter, and it’s been taken wildly out of context and used as a cudgel by atheist Leftists to root Christianity out of the public square. When Jefferson said it, it referred to stopping the government from enforcing religious beliefs on the people, protecting citizens’ free exercise of religion, but certainly did not call for banning any mention of God in public spaces. In fact, while Thomas Jefferson was President, he attended church services at the Capitol building — a fact that completely rebukes the “no prayer in school” Leftists.
The phrase comes from a private letter written by Thomas Jefferson. Since then, it’s been ripped out of context and weaponized by the atheist Left to purge Christianity from the public square.
The Left has done what it does best — twisted the truth for political purposes. Stopping the government from enforcing religion isn’t the same as banning public officials from holding religious beliefs. It’s not a license to discriminate against Christians — or a free pass to block religious groups from the same rights and resources as secular ones. It’s a fundamental, wittingly or unwittingly, misinterpretation of the founding fathers.
Equal treatment under the law means what’s allowed for secular schools must also be allowed for religious ones. A strong ruling could end anti-Christian discrimination in school funding — and open the door to putting God back into the classroom.
That raises a real concern: if religious schools receive public funds, how much control could a Democrat president exert over their curriculum? With every day of this new administration, we inch closer to restoring the country’s founding principles.
Thanks for reading today’s Cannon. The fight for America’s future continues — online, in Congress, and in culture.
For freedom,
David Bozell
President, ForAmerica
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