“Government is not the church.” — Rep. Michele Bachman, (R) Minnesota

Really? I thought government was supposed to legislate religious morality on reproductive rights, gay marriage, public school curricula….etc etc etc.

—Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.