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It is not illegal to teach religion in America.

However, through a very convoluted set of reasoning, the division of Church and State has been taken well beyond what the founding fathers intended. Because a school is an instrument of the state, it may not promote or favor one religion over another, or even promote religion over being non-religious. It can teach about religions from an historical perspective, but must be balanced and cover all the major religions, it cannot focus on a single religion.

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It is not illegal to teach religion in America. The U.S. Constitution ensures the separation of church and state, which means that public schools cannot endorse or promote a specific religion. However, schools can offer education about religion in an objective and neutral way.

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