Teach America’s Christian Traditions
George Washington is recorded to have said to a group of Indian chiefs who decided to bring their children to American schools: “You do well to wish to learn our arts and our ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ . . . “ I’ll bet that’s not taught in any of Orange County’s public schools.
The Orange County superintendent of schools, John F. Dean, defends the elite minority (“Lawmakers Can Better Help Pupils,” Dec. 11) against the vast majority of Americans who want prayer and the Bible returned to our schools. He points to, of all things, the 1962 U.S. Supreme Court decision, and subsequent rulings, made by liberal, agnostic and atheist judges as his grounds of justification.
This nation was established as a Christian nation and taught as such in our schools and colleges for close to two centuries. Perhaps Mr. Dean and his revisionary friends had best step aside so that our rich Christian history and spiritual nature can be rediscovered and re-established, whether the Madalyn Murray O’Hairs of the world are offended or not.
JACK R. DORTIGNAC
La Habra
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