The Most Important Church-State Decision You Never Heard of

By Rob Boston, Church and State. Posted February 3, 2007.

Everson v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court decision that kicked off the culture wars, marks its 60th anniversary.

Television preacher Pat Robertson can barely contain his anger when he talks about a 1947 Supreme Court decision calledEverson v. Board of Education.

Robertson attacked the ruling on his "700 Club" several times last year. Everson came out of anti-Catholicism, he sputtered in January of 2006. Four months later, he blasted the decision because in it the justices "relied on a letter written by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptists talking about a wall of separation that isn't in the Constitution."