In a move of stunning ignorance, the Baptist General Association of Virginia recently adopted a resolution taking a back-handed slap at the Texas State Board of Education’s vote this year to restore accurate teaching of separation of church and state to social studies curriculum.

For sake of reference, read the offensive language from Texas for yourself:

(G) examine the reasons the Founding Fathers protected religious freedom in America and guaranteed its free exercise by saying that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” and compare and contrast this to the phrase “separation of church and state.”

How extreme. How terrifying. The pillars of our freedom are crumbling as we speak. Give me a break.

They then assert that ominous forces are “under way in recent decades to write and teach versions of American history that minimize and sometimes deny the historic basis of one or both of the principles named above. …” The original resolution singled out historian David Barton, “reconstructionist historians” and the Texas State Board of Education.

Fortunately, due to the courageous intervention of convention delegate and patriot pastor Joey Giles of James Square Baptist Church in Lawrenceville (near Lynchburg), the names of the “guilty” were stricken from the resolution.

… The defenders of the secularist Government Education Complex in the BGAV and their ilk across America no longer have free reign to strip our faith from our history, thanks to the conservative champions on the Texas State Board of Education and those who stood with them.

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Dave Welch is the founder and executive director of the U.S. Pastor Council and Houston Area Pastor Council, interdenominational and interracial ministries of and for pastors based in Houston, Texas. Over the past 24 years, he has held numerous leadership positions including founding executive director of Christian Coalition of Washington, national field director of Christian Coalition and executive director of Vision America.