Editor:

Chris Bacon misunderstands. No, Christians aren't perfect (none are; some don't live their faith), but what's wrong with the morals of the Bible, e.g.; the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:30-37), which condemns prejudice?

Homeschooling has increased since liberal-secular-controlled education took over with declining moral behavior, eroding discipline; falling grades and accelerated violence in the classroom with few morals taught. Children must be protected from abuse, but parents and teachers should be allowed to discipline bad behavior. Since policies against spanking a child, good behavior declined, and child abuse still occurs. Political views, e.g., song about Obama, reminiscent of Hitler's Youth Movement, are presented in schools, but not God.

The motto of Harvard was Christi Gloriam (Christ be glorified) and dedicated Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae (Truth for Christ and for the Church). Yale's was similar. Princeton's presidents were Christian pastors.

In 1936, George Washington's account of a French and Indian War battle, since deleted, was included in textbooks. The only messenger on horseback who hadn't been killed by Indians, Washington, wrote: "By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt." Because the name of God was sacred then, and mostly used only inside the church, Washington credited Providence, meaning God.

Again, Chris misunderstands. It is now in Ohio, not the college I attended, that a university's Bible fellowship was denied registration when they stated that only their "voting members" had to maintain religious standards and accepted Christ as Savior-not every member. Christian groups do welcome others.

Chris accuses me of wanting religion to "control" the government, and dictate belief systems. I don't want what happened in England and colonial America. But neither should Christianity, which most Americans believe, be ignored. "Separation of church and state" is not mentioned in our Constitution. Christians won our independence, and set up a government where all had rights. Christianity should be honored and revealed as the faith of our founders and presidents through quotations in textbooks.

DORIS SOULE, Wheatland