Do the Republicans really believe in the Charters of Freedom?

[KansDem]

It used to be a given that every American, regardless of political affiliation, upheld and defended the Charters of Freedom. However, recent events, like the GOP Senate attempt to establish a dictatorship via “nuclear option,” and this incident described on DU yesterday:

“Republicans Balk at Requirement to Teach Constitution”
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3726307&mesg_id=3726307&page=

…leads me to believe otherwise. Perhaps Republicans really do not want to uphold and defend the Charters because of their strident right-wing devotion to neo-Con fundie beliefs. Consider for example that ultra-right wing Bob Jones University offers literature at its bookstore that “educates” good Christians as to what to dismiss or censor in education:

The “exclusivist” view of education:

Our spiritual affinities are with these who hold the exclusivist position, and our sympathies must be also. They are the ones with the sensitive consciences, the zeal for what is pleasing to God, the vigilance toward the moral erosion of society. But they should consider the implications of their position. To reject a work of literature or subject of study because of the presence of any amount of these elements within it is, first, to apply a standard that precludes the possibility of a liberal arts education. We forego the major works of Shakespeare, Spenser, Pope, Swift, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Browning, Hawthorne, Melville, Clemens, Frost, and almost every other standard writer. We do not teach the Declaration of Independence, for its arguments are based on the secularist idea of natural rights. Even Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is suspect, for the key to the outer gate (the iron gate) of Doubting Castle, Bunyan tells us, turned "damnable hard." (Bunyan, of course, meant "able to damn," but he must also have been punning.)
http://www.bjup.com/resources/articles/white_papers/objectionable_elements.html

The "exclusivist view" is only one of two or three views, but as the explanation offers, it is shared by "conscientious pastors." This view reminds me of a job I had back in the 1980s. I worked at a small Catholic college and remember vividly the dislike of a certain periodical, “The Humanist,” subscribed to by the library, by more than one nun. Apparently, this magazine had no place at the college. We can still see this “need” to censor certain writings, including the Declaration of Independence, by religious educational institution, and, apparently, Congressional Republicans.

I used to believe the GOP was just trying to pander to the religious zealots. Now I think they are the religious zealots and wonder if they have now adopted the neo-Con fundie “exclusivist” view of education and applied it to American politics.