"In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality," ruled Associate Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark in 1963. Yet today, the American nation continues to struggle to eliminate religious misinformation from the public schools that constitute the very basis of our democracy. The Bill of Rights, that hallowed cornerstone of the Constitution, forbids the governmental creation of an established church in its First, often quoted, Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." For over 200 years, the Consti…
