Yet, the last time I studied scripture, the Gospels were considered to be part of the Bible, albeit the New Testament, but a real part of it nonetheless.  Unless you know some horrible truth kept from the rest of us!  Your point is valid and a good one...religious study in the halls of our national government seem to always be based on the fundamentalist fire-and-brimstone sort of Evangelicalism.  And then they put it into national policy.  That's where the true abomination exists.