David Cortman: AU gets it oh so wrong on textbook case, Idaho bans numerous Great Works of Western Civilization from public schools

ADF attorney David Cortman writes at the Advancing Religious Liberty blog at the Christian Post: “Earlier today, Communications Director Joseph Conn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State authored a post on AU’s blog where he gloated over a federal judge’s decision upholding the State of Idaho’s ban on any use of all religious documents and texts in all public schools in the state.  AU writes as though they ‘know’ the law, but do they?  One might come to the conclusions they do-assuming one is ignorant of the history of law involved in this case . . . Let’s be honest about how crazy this ban is:  Think it’s just a ban on the Bible in public schools, even as a historical reference document?  No.  As worded, it prohibits many of the founding documents that are religious (and many, political).  This would include Washington and Lincoln’s inaugural and farewell addresses, The Epic of Gilgamesh (one of the oldest texts in Western literature), The Iliad and The Odyssey, St. Augustine’s Confessions, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail’ and his famous ‘I Have a Dream’ speech.  They won’t admit this, but who gets to decide what books are deemed ‘religious’?  Big Brother?  AU?  No thanks . . . ” (click Nampa case name tag for related posts)