[analog31]

"I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them." -- Jerry Falwell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Falwell

[jdoenejdk]

And how many US elected Republicans in Congress share those views?

[scentoni]

Depends on whether you're talking about party primaries or general elections. An example of this phenomenon wrt a different topic http://www.vox.com/2015/1/5/7494179/immigration-republican-p...