…Either the wall was intended to keep government out of the church, or it was intended to keep the church out of the government.
The truth is, Jefferson’s wall of separation was meant to protect every individual’s freedom of religious practice and expression without fear of penalty or retaliation from the government or any private party.
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From my standpoint and understanding, our Constitution IS our social contract. The Bill of Rights, the key to its adoption by the now free colonies smarting sharply from the failure of the Articles of Confederation, has as the first item in the First Amendment was that Congress WAS NEVER to create a law that would restrict or devolve the importance of peoples’ style of belief or worship:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
There was never to be a State sanctioned church or religion like the Anglican Church in England was at that time (hearing current stories about it, I do wonder if it is a church at all as it continues to drop the Biblical precepts it claims to believe in out of a castle tower’s windows into the moat below).
Here in the US, Obama really wanted to re-write the Constitution and set that into motion by deliberately misquoting it often:
Yeah – this is why he is always misquoting the First Amendment.
It is NOT the freedom of worship but the free expression thereof. But he knows that – and there can only be one reason why he refuses to declare the plain simple words written therein. True religious expression in the public square was the intent of the Founders – not relegated to a house of worship or at home. Marx made it quite clear that Religion, the nuclear family, and a strong middle class were objects to be destroyed and not valued. The State was to be the economic arbitrator, the head of the household, and yes, your god. And for Progressives, he is their Prophet.
Doubt me? How many people on the Right insist that worship and expression are to be kept in a building? None that I know of – only the Left. After all, it is an obstacle to their end game – when Government is worshiped and from which all blessings SHOULD flow. Not God and not from the hearts of believers.
(H/T: Instapundit)
