Right-wing pastor E.W. Jackson dedicated his radio program on Friday to railing against the existence of "After School Satan" clubs, which are designed to serve as an ironic counter to the evangelical Good News clubs that operate in public schools.
Jackson, of course, was deeply opposed to allowing After School Satan clubs to meet in schools because he thinks that public schools should be teaching the Bible, prayer and Christianity as part of the standard curriculum.
"You know what we need?" he asked. "We need to bring prayer back into schools and we need to bring the Bible back into schools and we need to start telling children, like we used to in school, who made you—God. And have them singing, 'Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.'"
Jackson insisted that requiring such instruction in public schools would not violate the First Amendment because he claimed that restrictions on the establishment of religion only applies to Congress. The problem, he said, is that local school districts easily cave whenever "some idiot ACLU nutcase comes along" and threatens to sue because "they hate God."
"They hate God, they hate any mention of God, they hate any notion of God. They hate Christianity," Jackson said. "What they want to do is completely sanitize the country of the presence, the acknowledgement, the respect for almighty God and the church and the synagogue or anything that represents the God of the Bible."
