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This is such a ploy by the right wingers. It's sick, really. Obviously we aren't able to see all of the relevant information but it appears that this teacher is using excerpts from historical documents to recruit future Christian warriors.
I think there is a whole lot more to the story. Maybe it's the paranoid person in me but the way I see it:
1) Radical Christian groups have two messages to spread: (a) God is Great and (b) Liberals (especially in Ca) are trying to take God away from us.
2) A plan is hatched. Collect and cite historical documents that refer to God and distribute them to kids. Make it contain enough history so that it appears to have historical significance. This will show that these people who are refered to as "founding fathers" were also men of God. Conveniently leave out the facts that although many of them were religious, they also believed in keeping God out of government.
3) Sit back and wait for the schools to take action against it when they see the obvious endorsement of religion masked as history. When the school takes action, you can file a lawsuit and get some columnist to write an article about how the California Liberals are trying to take God away from you. He'll have a catchy slogan like "Declaration of Independence Banned at Calif School"
4) After the story breaks right wing talk show hosts and message board trolls will rant on and on with rhetoric about how the Liberals only talk about free speech. They will gloss over the fact that pamphlets were banned, not the actual documents.
I'm convinced that the goal from the start was to entice the school to ban it so that they could end up in court and make the news. Radical Christians have their smear campaigns working at full steam right now.
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