Saturday, December 16, 2023

ACLU files suit against D.C. transit agency over refusal to display religious group’s ads - The Washington Post

The Texas-based nonprofit asserts that the Founding Fathers never intended to separate the church from the state and wanted to create a Christian nation. Its website presents the group as a "national pro-family organization" and offers to revisit the "moral, religious, and constitutional foundations" of American history. 

David Barton, named one of the nation's 25 most influential evangelicals in 2005 by Time magazine, founded the organization in 1989. Barton is the author of "The Jefferson Lies," a book that purports to disprove myths about Thomas Jefferson. In the book's abstract, the Founding Father is described as "a man who revered Jesus, a classical Renaissance man and a man whose pioneering stand for liberty and God-given inalienable rights fostered a better world for this nation and its posterity." 

The book became a bestseller but was pulled from distribution by its publisher after historians debunked numerous details in it…


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