America's schools have become increasingly hostile to Christians.

In recent years, students have been told they can't read their Bible at school, cannot talk to peers about their beliefs and certainly cannot pray there.

Critical Race Theory is taught as truth, yet boys are sent to girls restrooms if they claim to be female.

Christian student clubs routinely are denied the right to exist, and just this week, the Supreme Court took a step in the other direction by declaring that a Christian football coach, Joe Kennedy, was wrongly punished and fired for a brief prayer on the field after games played by his football team.

The situation is bad, explained former Attorney General William Barr.

So bad, in fact, he said, the antipathy likely is putting schools in the public education system outside the protections of the Constitution.

According to a report in Just the News, Barr recently spoke at Christian conference in Chicago, explaining that the "crisis" facing Western civilization is the deepest since the days of Christ.

He previously has suggested public schools are so hostile to the Judeo-Christian traditional that the system likely is outside the Constitution's protections.

"We are going through a fateful crisis in Western civilization. This is the deepest crisis we've faced in my mind since Christ. That's because our whole civilization is based on the Judeo-Christian tradition and that tradition is under sustained attack by increasingly militant secular forces," Barr said.

In a report at The Federalist, executive editor Joy Pullmann explained Barr's concerns reprised his comments during a 2019 speech at Notre Dame.