Barton has done a good job of preventing the Christian foundation of this country from being entirely buried by the left. Nevertheless, Barton has been afraid to tell Christian parents that placing your child in an anti-Christian institution to be discipled for 12 years is a sin. He was also a rather ineffective leader in the Texas Republican party. So, praise him for what he has done well, but things will continue to get worse until we reassume responsibility for educating our children and rid the land of our failed experiment in socialist (single-payer) government schooling.
He also got caught making up quotes and attributing them to founders in one of his books.