Thousands of people recently signed a petition from Faithful America that urged Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Department of Education (DOE) to stop the “hijacking of Jesus’s name” with their civics course in public schools within the state.
In its petition from last Wednesday, Faithful America, an organization of Christians supporting social justice causes while opposing “Christian nationalism,” accused Florida of “bribing public school teachers to indoctrinate students in the tenets of Christian nationalism” by offering a civics course that the organization believes “wrongly assert the Ten Commandments form the basis for U.S. law.”
The petition, which was addressed to DeSantis and Florida Commissioner of Education Manny Díaz Jr., says that the civics program “erroneously and outrageously claims that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, teaches demonstrable falsehoods about the separation of church and…
