In a compromise amendment that nonetheless pleased State Board of Education social conservatives — and hewed closely to their preferred language — members this afternoon passed an amendment to the state's socials studies standards calling for students to "contrast" the intent of the nation's founders with the notion of separation of church and state. 

It reads: “Examine the reasons the Founding Fathers protected religious freedom in America and guaranteed its free exercise by saying that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, and compare and contrast this to the phrase, 'separation ...

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