On this day in 1911, Nelle Reagan gave birth to a baby boy who would later become our nation’s 40th president. Volumes have been written on President Ronald Reagan’s wit, wisdom, and legacy. One of the many memorable and widely quoted phrases of Reagan’s career is, “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under.”

The original context of the statement is even more relevant today than it was when Reagan first said it in 1984. He was commenting on the enactment of the “Equal Access Bill,” a law that was passed in response to several court decisions that had essentially removed any reference to religion from public schools.

In his remarks leading up to the famous quote, Reagan noted, “In 1963, the Court banned the reading of the Bible in our public schools. From that point on, the courts pushed the meaning of the ruling ever outward, so that now our children are not allowed voluntary prayer. We even had to pass a law – we passed a special law in the Congress just a few weeks ago – to allow student prayer groups the same access to school rooms after classes that a Young Marxist Society, for example, would already enjoy with no opposition…

“…Once religion had been made vulnerable, a series of assaults were made in one court after another on one issue after another. Cases were started to argue against tax-exempt status for churches. Suits were brought to........

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