A Chronology of the Removal of the Official and Permanent History, of American Law and Civil Government from the Public School Systems

1962: U.S. supreme Court without citing a single precedent, declares school prayer unconstitutional.

1963: U.S. supreme Court declares Bible reading in school unconstitutional.

1965: First Federal funding is provided to the states for education.

1967: The National Education Association in their national magazine publishes their announcement of radical change in school curriculum: "...breaking away from the tradtionaI dominance of history, geography, and civics. Materials from the behavior sciences...sociology, social psychology.., are being incorporated into both elementary and secondary school progams.

1978: The Kentucky, General Assembly passes legislation requiring that the Ten
Conmmandments produced with private money be posted in Kentucky Classrooms.

1980: In reaction to the action of the Kentucky General Assembly, in ACLU challenges and in Stone v. Graham the supreme Court, without oral argument or receiving briefs, holds that schools can not be required to post the Ten Commandments but that the Decalogue and the Bible can be used in "maybe Constitutionally integrated into schools curriculum, when used in an appropriate study of history, civilization, ethics, comparative religion or the like."

1983: In reaction to the supreme Court decison, the U.S. Congress and the President declare that 1983 is "The Year of the Bible," because of its significant role in the development of American law' and civil government.

1991: The Kentucky General Assembly passed legislation to forbid any further censorship in Kentucky schools of official and historic civic and political documents because of their religious content, and encourages restoring American history to the schools by teaching from official documents of civil government.

1992: Governor Brereton Jones signs KRS 158.195 into law.

1997-98: Because teachers and Kentuckians are not widely aware of KRS 158.195, former Governor Jones forms PERK, a diverse group of Kentuckians dealing with the importance of religion in America's founding and to implement KRS 158.195 to stop further censorship of history because of its religious content.

2000: Kentucky General Assembly passes SJR 57 which finds the Ten Commandments the precedent legal code of the Commonwealth and 7 other "comparative religion" bills are rejected.