I still find it funny that the left still continues to stress "Seperation of Church and State," as if those words are in the constitution, yet the only words that even have anything to do with that are (from Thomas Jefferson):
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ..."
This is designed to
protect religion, not censor, blockade, etc.
And James Madison, 4th President, federalist, and chief framer of the Constitution:
"The people feared one sect might obtain a preeminence, or two combine together, and establish a religion to which they would compel others to conform...we have staked the whole future of American civilization upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the ten commandments of God."
The first time the separation came to light was in the 1947 Supreme Court case of Everson v. Board of Education, where Justice Black decreed, but this is an interpretation, and not the actual writing of the Constitution:
"The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach."
In The People of the United States v. Ballard in 1944, Justice Douglas stated:
"(The 1st Amendment) forestalls compulsion by law of the acceptance of any creed or the practice of any form of worship, and safeguards the free exercise of the chosen form of religion."
Hence, the left would like you to think that those words, "separation of church and state" are in the constitution, but, they are not.
