Over at the First Things website, James R. Rogers provides a fascinating analysis of a legislative battle in Virginia in the 1780s, when Patrick Henry introduced a bill which would impose a tax which would go to support pastors, the maintenance of Church buildings, and a system of public schools. Those in the Christian home schooling movement who have apotheositized Patrick Henry would do well to consider his arguments alongside those of his successful opponents, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, and ask who best understood the proper relationship of the state to the Church.
Oh, and as a proud graduate of a Virginia public high school and university: sic semper tyrannis!
No comments:
Post a Comment