"The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation."
"In 1967, in DeKalb v. DeSpain, a court (255 F.Supp. 655. N.D.Ill. 1966.) took a 4-line nursery rhyme used by a K-5 kindergarten class and declared the nursery rhyme unconstitutional. The court explained that although the word 'God' was not contained in this nursery rhyme, if someone were to hear the rhyme, he might think that it was talking about God - and that would be unconstitutional!"
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Source: David Barton (2013). “Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion”, p.30, BookBaby
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