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"Most
of the Supreme Court Justices didn't live long enough to see the full impact of
their decision in 1962: kids on drugs; violence so bad that teachers
in many schools are afraid to flunk students for fear of their lives; rampant
sex, even at the elementary levels, with its accompanying venereal diseases; and
an epidemic of teen suicides. And we call this progress" (Local Solutions,
Whatever happened to the American Dream — Larry Burkett, Moody Press,
1993) Other
consequences of the "Separation of Church and State" principle include:
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| Over
6,000 cases in court challenging religious expression in public[48] | | •
| Restriction
of the influence of Christian ideas | | •
| Prohibition
of public prayer | | •
| The
fostering of Scriptural ignorance | | •
| Promotion
of Atheism - the new "State Religion" | | •
| A
big cover up our Godly heritage | | •
| Over
a 500% increase in teenage pregnancies[48] | | •
| Over
a 794% increase in violent crime[48] |
In
summary, the point cannot again be again emphasized too strongly that
the First Amendment was intended to protect the church from government interference;
it in no way intended that religious influence should be kept out of public life.[2]
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