The attack on Church/State separation will definitely ramp up under the incoming Congress...

[Adsos Letter]

An insightful post from the AU blog by Rob Boston:

"Misplaced Priority: House Ed. Panel Plans To Push D.C. School Vouchers"

It looks increasingly like the first major church-state battle in the new Congress will be over voucher subsidies for religious schools.

“The Wall of Separation” reported last week that vouchers could be on the horizon, and now we have confirmation from a source close to congressional Republicans.

The Washington Times reported yesterday that “key House Republican lawmakers say they will push a popular school-voucher program that was canceled by the Obama administration.”

read more at:

http://blog.au.org/2010/11/10/misplaced-priority-house-ed-panel-plans-to-push-d-c-school-vouchers/?utm_source=au-homepage&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Recently-on-homepage

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I don't know if the Washington Times is simply engaging in wishful thinking (on THEIR part) but I doubt it. I suspect that the theocrats in Congress, with their conflation of the nation's ills with disobedience to God, will inject a large dose of their theology into the debate over economic solutions.

Edit to add: if you are unfamiliar with Rob Boston, his book The Founding fathers and the Place of Religion in the United States is excellent. I have given it to one of my theocratic leaning Christian friends, and it turned his views around. It didn't reduce his faith in Christ, but it did convince him that the theocrats are peddaling a doctrine that is bogus, and exceptionally dangerous to the secular ideals this republic was founded upon.