This is outrageous, what's next? A documentary on the evidence for Intelligent Design? From the PBS Web site

America is a nation forged in the furnace of controversy over religion in politics. The events of 9/11 brought that conflict into sharper relief, and the 2004 presidential election provoked a closer examination of the role of religion in American government. The historical documentary WALL OF SEPARATION, airing in June 2007 (check local listings) on PBS, examines the origins and history of this controversy.

The “wall of separation” is a metaphor deeply embedded in the American consciousness. Most Americans assume that the First Amendment prevents the mixing of politics and religion. The freedom of religion clauses protect individuals from the entanglement of religion with government and secure the right to freely exercise religious faith. America is a religiously pluralistic culture guided by a secular government.

But what would surprise most Americans is the discovery that this is not what the Founding Fathers intended when they established the nation and wrote the Constitution and Bill of Rights. In fact, they had a radically different interpretation of the role of religion in state and federal governments. Just what was their view? Why was it different? Where did the “wall of separation” metaphor come from? And how did its meaning evolve into what we consider it today?

WALL OF SEPARATION explores both sides of the issue by telling the story of the “wall” metaphor, from its humble beginnings in a letter by Thomas Jefferson to a Baptist church through important Supreme Court cases like Everson vs. Board of Education and the most recent decisions about Ten Commandment displays. Actor Liev Schreiber narrates.

Serious historians know suggesting the founding fathers wanted to establish a theocracy is a radically revisionist view of history.

From DailyKos

This diary concerns an upcoming PBS "documentary" that purports to show "both" sides of an argument, about the nature of church-state separation. But, as the PBS description of the "documentary", on PBS' own website highlights, the "documentary" advances and appears biased towards a central claim of leading American Christian historical revisionists, such as David Barton, who have constructed a demonstrably falsified version of America history. The documentary, as described on PBS own website, claims the current, orthodox interpretation of church-state separation is 180 degrees wrong, and that claim is one that's been advanced by partisans of the Christian right. In effect, PBS is getting into the "Liars for Jesus" business. KEEP READING

Another great article from Talk2Action: PBS Revelation: Network's 'Wall Of Separation' Has Religious Right Genesis