Howdy, Everybody;
I have read the Constitution of the United States and amendments, and it does not say anywhere that religion must be kept separate from government.
What it does say is that the government is not allowed to MANDATE a specific religion as the state religion.
The First Amendment says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
If I choose to freely exercise my religion in a public school or a courtroom, the First Amendment declares that the laws of the U.S. may not prohibit me from doing so. That's what it says!
Get over it, all you left-wingers.
-Pop
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I'm in the middle of reading Frank Lambert's "The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America", which makes pretty much exactly that point. The framers of the Constitution believed in a "free market" concept of religion - it was up to individuals to decide what they believed; no particular faith or church was mandated by the government.
There seems to be a movement afoot to reintepret things to say we are to be free FROM religion.
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