In Christianity and Democracy, Reverend Richard John Neuhaus observes the following: "In this century of Hitler and Stalin and their lesser imitators, the most urgent truth to be told about secular politics has been the threat of totalitarianism."
He goes on to assert that "Democratic government is limited government. It is limited in the claims it makes and in the power it seeks to exercise . . .The state is not the whole of the society; it is one important actor in the society. Other institutions – notably the family, educational, economic and cultural enterprises, and churches – are at least equally important actors in the society. They do not exist or act by sufferance of the state."
We call for an investigation of the suppression of religion in public educational institutions.