Show 97 Dennis Prager and Michael Medved talk to historian Stephen Mansfield.. His new book is Ten Tortured Words: How the Founding Fathers Tried to Protect Religion in America . . . and What’s Happened Since. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. No other sentence has proven more important to America - or has been so dramatically wrenched from its original meaning and context. Today, the first sentence of the First Amendment is used to quash prayer at public events, chisel religious phrases from official buildings, intimidate pastors into keeping silent on political issues, and fire teachers for keeping Bibles on their desks. Now, in Ten Tortured Words: How the Founding Fathers Tried to Protect Religion in America and What’s Happened Since, Stephen Mansfield reveals how the First Amendment to the Constitution written to protect religion from a federal government only has been so manipulated by the Left that its use now contradicts the intention of the Founding Fathers.Ten Tortured Words combines extensive historical and legal research with interviews of contemporary thinkers and American voices. You’ll learn:
How the First Amendment originally was not understood as a ban on religion in government—in fact, it didn’t even apply to the states
The true context of Thomas Jefferson’s “wall of separation between church and state? metaphor - and how its misuse is contrary to Jefferson’s own beliefs
Why Washington, D.C, residents - including several presidents—attended church services in the Capitol for much of the 19th century
How the Everson v. Board of Education ruling refashioned American religious life into a secularist vision - and the KKK affiliation of the Supreme Court Justice who wrote this majority opinion
The ACLU’s bullying techniques, profiteering through Establishment Clause litigation, how Hollywood funds these bogus cases
The emerging “Religious Left,? and how religious worldviews will play a prominent role in the 2008 elections 12MB 55min.  podcast rating 6 out of 10. Download all of Dennis Pragers shows free at: http://www.townhall.com/talkradio/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=3  For all of Michael Medveds shows go to https://www.michaelmedved.com/site $4.95 per month. Both podcasts are highly recommended by ACU.