A question was asked by a TV reporter who was preparing for a prime-time TV program to a Christian Pastor/Author.  He said "The mood of the country is changing; people realize that we must go back to teaching moral values."  So he asked "How can we return to teaching traditional values without violating the first amendment that separates religion and politics?" 

This reporter had talked to NEA officials who confided in him that they were deeply concerned with what's going on with our young people.  He had also spoken with the education department administrators, politicians and parents. 

So now we have to ask why the sudden concern?  These are the same people who have told the kids for years that there is no right and wrongs; just whatever is right for you type of thing. 

I think this man was simply seeing for the first time that we are reaping what we have sown which by the way is a biblical Christian teaching that our children are not taught anymore.  As a nation we are reaping what we have sown the last 50 years, and that is, the secularist teachings in our schools.  Now we are saying we don't like it. 

So is it possible to teach the kids moral values and still not teach religion?  If we continue going as we are now our country will be sheer chaos before the 21st century closes the door. 

Moral values are rooted in all religions. Ask yourself "what traditional moral values violate anyone's religion?"  Ask a Catholic, Jew, Muslim, Mormon, Baptist, "Is it wrong to lie, cheat, steal, kill or commit adultery?" They will all say "yes."   But then ask a secular humanist, atheist, communist, or socialist and he'll respond, "not always" "in some cases" or "there is no absolutes."  Both answers are based on religion; The first religious answer would come from the scriptures and the answer from religious secularists from Humanist Manifestos I and II.

In our country morals were routed  traditionally in the Judeo-Christian religions.  We have what I'd call a moral sickness sweeping our country right now fast becoming an epedemic.  The secularists who are controling much of our schools, media networks, and government  may be forced to agree that moral teaching is needed to preserve our democracy. 

In 1952 one of the most atheistic, anti-religious Supreme Court justices admitted that our country was a Religious nation. 

In Zorach v. Clausen  Supreme Justice William Douglas penned this stunning acknowledgment:

"The First Amendment does not say that in every and all respects there should be a separation of Church and State.  Rather it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on the other.  That is the common sense of the matter.  Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other-hostile, suspicious, and even unfriendly.  Municipalities would not be permitted to render police or fire potection to religious groups.  Policemen who helped parishoners into their places of worship would violate the Constitution.  Prayers in our legislative halls; the appeals to the Almighty in the messages of the Chief Executive "so help me God" in our courtroom oaths-these and all other references to the Almighty that run through our laws, our public rituals, our ceremonies, would be flouting the First Amendment.  A fastidios atheist or agnostic could even object to the supplication which which the Court opens each session:  "God save the United States and this Honorable Court." 

He was right but these last so many years government has been hostile to religion, at the expense of our children.   They are the ones really losing out. 

The true meaning of the first amendment has been shredded to pieces these last 50 years.  There is nothing in the constitution that says "separation of church and state."  Says nothing.  But it hasn't stopped the secular humanists to use the power of the government to harrass those who believe otherwise. 

The lawyers even know better.  In 1987 the American Bar Association took a poll of its very liberal membership to see if lawyers felt that teaching from the traditional Judeo-Christian base including creation science would violate the first amendment.  It was amazing to find out that 62% believed it would not violate the Constitution.  Why then won't the secular humanists who contol education permit creation science as a theory?  Because it runs contrary to their religiously held belief in evolution. 

Judge Hand in Mobile, Alabama in a 1987 decision identified secular humanism as a "non-theistic religion."  So in all reality our children are being taught religion in schools.  It just doesn't involve God.  The secularizers have driven religion out of our schools and replaced it with religious humanism.