In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered.

I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.