Excerpt of PBS Wall of Separation
Jonathan Rowe on Jun 19th 2007 09:53 pm |
Though I don’t entirely agree with its perspective, I see nothing outrageous or even objectionable about the following excerpt taken from the producers’ website. So far, it features Daniel Dreisbach and James H. Hutson, who are among the respectable scholars to go to for the “lowering the wall of separation” perspective (were I producing the special, others I might choose for that perspective might include Phillip Muñoz, Philip Hamburger, Gerard Bradley, and Rick Garnett).
Obviously, because I haven’t seen the entire thing, I can’t make a judgment. The minute they pull out hacks like David Barton or William Federer, or God-forbid actual Reconstructionists, then there will be something to decry. (And who knows? They may. Coral Ridge’s specials typically include a few respectable scholars among a group of hacks.)
But so far, all I see is a scholarly documentary which tilts to the right. And God knows PBS has tons of such programs which tilt to the left.
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Well, doesnt the involvement of Brian Godawa as writer/director concern you a bit, maybe more than a bit? Here’s Ed Brayton’s comments:
http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2007/06/pbs_flirts_with_reconstruction_1.php#more
Yes — the involvement of a Reconstructionist does concern me.
[...] Okay, after this post noting that parts of the PBS special (which I haven’t yet seen — when is it going to be broadcast?) perhaps look fair, Ed Brayton posts on something biased. Brayton quotes the the narration: “The United States is a society based on the rule of law. And our Founding Fathers believed that if they did not base their laws on a higher authority, then whoever was in power would determine what the law said. They called this `tyranny.’ Their higher authority was the Law of God – the Ten Commandments.” [...]
[...] Chris Rodda deals with this same issue in a post which seeks to answer PBS’s “Wall of Separation” program, stunningly produced by a Christian Reconstructionist. I saw a five minute excerpt which looked fair, probably because that clip showed only two very respectable scholars — Daniel Dreisbach of American University, and James H. Hutson of the Library of Congress. [...]