1. Religious Identity and Diversity in America
What really caused a spike in this campaign was the routine prayer and religious statues in public school classrooms. After multiple law suits against the school board, the case finally reached the U.S. Supreme Court and prayer was banned from public schools "much to Christians' displeasure. Around this time the evangelicals Jerry Falwell and Ed Dobson preached to convince Christians they had a higher calling than to protest in the Civil Rights Movement. ... In 2006 Obama addresses, "Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Musli...
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