Last year, we posted a clip of David Barton falsely claiming that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer had stated in a court decision that “we all know that all of our due processes clauses in our Bill of Rights came out of the Bible.” At the time, Barton failed to cite the case in which Breyer supposedly made this assertion, but we guessed that Barton was citing Breyer’s 1999 concurrence in Lilly v. Virginia, in which he stated that “the right of an accused to meet his accusers face-to-face is mentioned in, among other things, the Bible, Shakespeare, and 16th and 17th century British statutes, cases, and treatises.”
As we noted at the time, Breyer was not asserting that “all of our due process in our Bill of Rights came out of the Bible,” but was simply acknowledging that the right to face one’s accuser is mentioned in the Bible and elsewhere.
Of course, Barton is never one to let the facts get in the way of promoting his agenda and so we were not surprised to see Barton repeat this claim in his most recent episode of his “Foundations of Freedom” series, where he actually exaggerated Breyer’s point even further to now claim that Breyer had asserted that “we know all of the Bill of Rights came out of the Bible”:
In this instance, Barton actually cited the supposed source, which was indeed the Lilly v. Virginia decision and which anyone can look up and read for themselves to see that Breyer in no way made the assertion that Barton initially claimed last year, much less the even more outrageously false version that Barton put forth in his most recent DVD series.
