While Martin Luther King, a Baptist minister, spoke powerfully about issues of racial justice and equality from pulpits, he didn’t see the need to hand out candidate endorsements in church.

Defending public schools means more than simply keeping the schools free of things like coercive prayer, mandatory Bible reading, teacher proselytism and creationism. We also must ensure that public schools have the funding they need to educate America’s children.

Sometimes people pressure school staff to teach things that are unconstitutional, illegal, inappropriate or that run afoul of state curriculum standards. They might also press for removing needed instruction. The only answer there is no.