A New Hampshire couple has pulled their son out of his local high school
after the teen was assigned a book that refers to Jesus Christ as a "wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist."

Aimee Taylor says her oldest son, 16-year-old Jordan Henderson, was required to read "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America," this fall for Bedford High School's personal finance class.

The book is a first-person account of author Barbara Ehrenreich's attempts to make ends meet while working minimum wage jobs in Florida, Maine and Minnesota.

But in addition to taking aim at the idea of the American Dream, and arguing for a higher minimum wage, Taylor says Ehrenreich also takes aim at Christians and other groups in the book and uses foul language -- all of which made Jordan unhappy...

A health policy expert at the Cato Institute believes Jesus' Parable of the Good Samaritan provides insight into why a new government health insurance program is a poor idea.

Michael Cannon, the Cato Institute's director of health policy studies, recently published a blog post on the think tank's website titled "Health Care Reform: What Would Jesus Do?" The post, written by Cannon's father -- a Catholic theologian in Northern Virginia -- took the familiar story in the Book of Luke about a man traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho who "fell among thieves" and was "left half dead," and applied that to the current debate in America over healthcare reform.