When I first heard that a California public school had barred a teacher from reading the Declaration of Independence because it contains references to God, I thought: Oh, this has got to be a hoax. After all, it bears the classic stamp of the urban legend: it takes a current social concern, takes it to the absurdest possibilities, and it fits the slope perfectly ? too perfectly.
But apparently this one’s real. Taranto has passed it along in his “Best of the Web” column, with citations by WorldNetDaily and Reuters.
Nothing underscores the absurdity of the current misinterpretation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution so perfectly as this: that it leads to the conclusion that the nation’s founding document is unconstitutional!
