Teaching about religion in public schools - Church and State - Column

Humanist, Sept-Oct, 1996 by Edd Doerr

Menendez, author of more than 30 books (and whose articles have appeared in The Humanist), has put together an excellent summary of what is known about the phenomenon of home schooling. He finds that home schooling is overwhelmingly a conservative and fundamentalist movement, though there are a few humanists and Unitarian Universalists who also home school.

Alley, professor emeritus of humanities at the University of Richmond, Virginia, is a leading First Amendment scholar. This book, which appeared originally as a long article in the William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, is a well-documented (470 footnotes) refutation of the disinformation campaign being waged against church-state separation by televangelist and political operative Pat Robertson and others of that ilk.

All four books mentioned in this column are good reads and excellent additions to the libraries of all who value religious freedom and the free mind.