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One of the most fundamental tenets of American democracy, the separation of church and state, is facing new assaults on the public-school front.
In Missouri, a bill that would allow the introduction of the Old Testament and the New Testament to the curriculum in public schools as an elective is a recent skirmish in the ongoing battle.