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A rally celebrating the Founders’ true understanding of church/state relations–and decrying secularist distortions of that understanding–went off without a hitch Tuesday:

[John] Gedney [of Christian Motorcycles Association] was one of more than 100 people who attended a rally Tuesday organized by Minutemen United, an Ohio-based Christian group that promotes religious liberties and believes that the nation’s founding fathers intended to keep religious principles in government.

Most of the people who attended stayed for the duration of the two-hour event, sitting on the grass and blocking their eyes from the springtime evening sun. They also munched on hot dogs and chips that were for sale by a local vendor.

Minutemen United brought preachers, teachers and historians from across the country to tell people why the wall that separates church and state must come down.

Best-selling author Bill Federer of Amerisearch said the only religion that receives tolerance is secularism. Greg Thompson of the America Asleep Know More group said the public school system is filled with moral decay. And the Rev. Bob Schenck of the National Clergy Council said Christians need to be more aggressive to get public policy changed.

The rally was nearly derailed last week by a liberal opponent posing as a neo-Nazi supporter. Hat City Blog, a liberal Danbury blogger who opposes the rally’s support for religion in the public square, nonetheless raises some important questions about the News-Times’ role in the hoax. FIC members may also wish to click on the News-Times article in order to post their own comments in the online conversation over the issues raised by the rally.