I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
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I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.
Each of us has the choice to attend the church we want to, or none at all. Separation of church and state allows for religions to have their own set of rules as to whom they will accept and who they won't, and the practices they support and the ones they don't. They will continue to be able to do so.
The Church's role should be separated from the state's role.
Separation of Church and state was a radical idea when the U.S. was first founded, but it's become The Way Things Are.
I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.
The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values.
We have this idea in our minds that there's this separation of church and state in America, which I think is a good thing. And we extend that to our politics - not just church and state, but it's also there's a separation of religion and politics. But of course there isn't.
I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country.
I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church.
Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing.