Saturday, July 15, 2017

Hobby Lobby’s Independence Day Ad Is A Real Mess | Americans United

On July 4, many newspapers across the country ran a full-page ad placed by the Hobby Lobby corporation. Headlined “God Bless America,” the ad’s purpose is to imply that Christianity once had a prominent place in American law and government but was forced out by the mean old courts. As I read the ad, I could immediately tell that it was heavily influenced by David Barton, the Religious Right’s favorite pseudo-historian. Many of Barton’s errors, distortions and omissions appear in the ad....
https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/hobby-lobby-s-independence-day-ad-is-a-real-mess

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