I don’t know the editorial policy of The Free Republic (and whether they will print this), but Rather than take many hours to compose a response to the query of Chris Scott I’ve taken the liberty to quote Rosalie J. Slater, Scholar, Master Teacher from Foundation for American Christian Education below, who really answers the question, I think most accurately and profoundly.

In my opinion, why liberalism is often an outgrowth of scholarly people, and why the most prominent colleges in America – the ivy league schools – are often the most liberal environments, and produce the writers, artists and politicians who are often the most liberal is because:

“For over ONE HUNDRED YEARS Americans have not known or learned of America’s Christian History. Five generations of Americans have produced a national ignorance concerning the Providential founding of this nation and God’s hand in preserving, defending, and leading the Colonists to victory in 1775 – 1781 – the seven long years of the American Christian Revolution. Today we have no proud heroes – no models of character, or leadership, to inspire our youth. We have no identity for courage, conscience or compassion, to cherish as part of the proud fabric which a people weaves into its character and tradition. The reason is not that we do not possess such treasury of greatness and heroism. The reason is that we have allowed our treasury to be robbed and pillaged of its gold – the gold of Christian character. In so doing we have lost our vision of the destiny and purpose of God’s America.

One hundred years ago we took education out of the Christian home where it had raised up men and women who were God-fearing, Christ-honoring, Bible loving people. People who were willing to count the cost of Christian liberty. Yielding to the arguments of secularism in the 1830´s, 40´s and 50´s, we permitted our churches to relinquish their leadership of Christian education. In making this change into the government sponsored schools, we closed our Bible as the educational and political textbook, and we shifted our level of education from the building of individual Christian character to the building of a group character, conformable to society. As we shifted from a God-centered republic to a man-centered democracy – we began to flounder… The anti-Christian education of the progressive state schools has produced the socialism and the communism of our times.”… Rosalie J. Slater, Foundation for American Christian Education, 1965