WE MUST FLING WIDE
THE ONLINE GATES
An item posted recently on Facebook recalled that in October of 1982 a joint House and Senate resolution acknowledged that Holy Scripture, as “the Word of God,” is “the rock on which our Republic rests,” and declared that 1983 would be celebrated as the “Year of the Bible.”
Almost four decades later — after countless debates over religious symbols in public spaces, a near-complete cleansing of faith from public education, and relentless efforts to force church-related institutions to adapt their policies and procedures to some highly questionable secular legal standards — it’s hard to imagine such a robust governmental salute to our nation’s spiritual roots.
