A resolution proposed by the Virginia Baptist Mission Board (of VA's Baptist General Association) would attempt to reclaim the traditional Baptist principle of church-state separation and government neutrality toward religion. ABP's Robert Dilday reports that the "project… is a response to what the committee called recent revisions of American history that minimize or deny separation of church and state…"
Text of the resolution includes the following passage:
Whereas, the Religious Liberty Committee of the Baptist General Association of Virginia has concluded that systematic efforts have been under way in recent decades to write and teach versions of American history that minimize and sometimes deny the historic basis of one or both of the principles named above, including, so the Committee judges, in the work of David Barton (1), the late W. Cleon Skousen (2), some “Reconstructionist” authors (3), and those who shaped some of the textbook recommendations made by the Texas Board of Education in May, 2010…
The Board will produce a 100-page "history project" document seeking to correct the record.
