I don't have a problem with religion or people who follow it, some of my good friends are Christian and go to church. But it has absolutely NO place in government or law making. Society's based on religious law are never stable or tolerant, *cough Iran. But it goes both ways, no government should tell people what religion to follow. That's the reason why many emigrated to America in the first place.
Many people in government are religious and that has shaped and influenced how they grew up, how they think, how they view things, etc. And so naturally that's going to influence, to one degree or another, how they make laws. That's just a fact. Well, that's
if they actually take their religion seriously. It's obvious a Catholic like Paul Ryan takes his religion seriously, while a Catholic like Joe Biden simply plays the game and couldn't care less about it. Just like the guy he works for. Anyway, to say "religion has no place" in law making just isn't practical. Meanwhile, the flip side to that coin is that you're basically saying any hair-brained idea a secular liberal comes up is OK simply because it's not influenced by religion.
"Separation of church and state" means one thing - we don't have a state church like the Church of England. Everything beyond that is the result of secular liberal and activist judges trying to marginalize religion as much as possible because they can't stamp it out completely.
