{"id":46154,"date":"2025-09-02T10:08:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/?post_type=cs_article&#038;p=46154"},"modified":"2025-09-02T10:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:08:53","slug":"should-the-bible-be-taught-in-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"cs_article","link":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/the-latest\/church-and-state\/articles\/should-the-bible-be-taught-in-public-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Should the Bible be taught in public schools?"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a strong supporter of Americans United\u2019s defense of church-state separation, as well as the Constitution\u2019s clearly established principle of \u201cno establishment\u201d (of any religion or religion itself), I\u2019m also sensitive to the fact that the phrase \u201cseparation of church and state\u201d does not appear in the First Amendment. In my view, a consistent response to Christian Nationalists who are quick to point that out, ought to be: \u201cThat\u2019s correct, the phrase is not there, yet, no religion can be set as the standard in our secular society.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"cs_issue_tax":[268],"cs_article_type":[158],"class_list":["post-46154","cs_article","type-cs_article","status-publish","hentry","cs_issue_tax-september-2025-church-state-magazine","cs_article_type-viewpoint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article\/46154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cs_article"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article\/46154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cs_issue_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_issue_tax?post=46154"},{"taxonomy":"cs_article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article_type?post=46154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}