President John F. Kennedy once said, "The greatest enemy of truth is often not the lie, deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic." One of the greatest deceptions ever perpetrated upon modern America has been through the myth of the "Wall of Separation between Church and State."

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Dr. Kenyn (pronounced kee-nin) Cureton holds a B.A. from Carson Newman College (1985) and an M. Div. (1989) and Ph.D. (1993) from the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. He did additional study at the University of Texas at Arlington and at the University of Lund in Sweden as a part of his Ph.D. studies.

Perhaps the pinnacle of Kenyn's civic engagement work to date was his contribution to the "ivotevalues" campaign in 2004. In addition to co-authoring the ivotevalues voter resource guide with Dr. Richard Land of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, Kenyn provided the vast majority of the content and messaging for the ivotevalues.com website and voter impact tool kit, which contained bulletin inserts, legal dos and don'ts, a full-text message for pastors, etc. That year Focus on the Family re-branded this work (ivotevalues.org) in collaboration with the SBC and deployed it in a successful outreach to the nation's evangelical churches and citizens.

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