By Mark Tooley
Today is George Washington's 280th birthday, which (unlike "Presidents' Day") deserves full celebration. One evening this week I was one of several invited to give toasts to George Washington before students and other supporters of Hillsdale College at its wonderful Capitol Hill campus. Our republic still has hope when young and hold still gather to honor our chief Founding Father.
It's a tribute, in a way, to Washington that his legacy is so interwoven into the nation's fabric that so many across the spectrum still want to claim him. Recently, an official with the left-wing and typically anti-religious Americans United for the Separation of Church and State described how Washington's ostensible indifference to religion would today make him "unelectable."
"To hear the Religious Right tell it, men like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were 18th-century versions of Jerry Falwell in powdered wigs and stockings," explained Rob Boston, a senior policy analyst with Americans United. "Nothing could be further from the truth."
Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/02/22/the-timelessly-enigmatic-georg
Today is George Washington's 280th birthday, which (unlike "Presidents' Day") deserves full celebration. One evening this week I was one of several invited to give toasts to George Washington before students and other supporters of Hillsdale College at its wonderful Capitol Hill campus. Our republic still has hope when young and hold still gather to honor our chief Founding Father.
It's a tribute, in a way, to Washington that his legacy is so interwoven into the nation's fabric that so many across the spectrum still want to claim him. Recently, an official with the left-wing and typically anti-religious Americans United for the Separation of Church and State described how Washington's ostensible indifference to religion would today make him "unelectable."
"To hear the Religious Right tell it, men like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were 18th-century versions of Jerry Falwell in powdered wigs and stockings," explained Rob Boston, a senior policy analyst with Americans United. "Nothing could be further from the truth."
Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/02/22/the-timelessly-enigmatic-georg
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