While we have a Constitution that is very strong in the sense that we are not gonna have a religion that's sanctioned by the government, it doesn't mean that we need to have a separation between government and religion.
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I disagree strongly with the concept of separation of church and state. It was not written into the Constitution.
The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
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.
It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.
The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
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.
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
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.
Freedom of religion is a fundamental Constitutional principle. It's a founding principle of this country.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.