[ForYourChildren]

I was just partially joking, shoulda put a /s tag on it I guess.

[Olog-hai]

I hear you.

I must confess that any suggestion that the USA’s constitution be anything like the USSR’s in wording still gets me going, though.

In order to ensure to citizens freedom of conscience, the church in the U.S.S.R. is separated from the state, and the school from the church. Freedom of religious worship and freedom of antireligious propaganda is recognized for all citizens.

— Article 124 of 1936 “Stalin Constitution”

Citizens of the USSR are guaranteed freedom of conscience, that is, the right to profess or not to profess any religion, and to conduct religious worship or atheistic propaganda. Incitement of hostility or hatred on religious grounds is prohibited. In the USSR, the church is separated from the state, and the school from the church.

— Article 52, 1977 “Brezhnev Constitution”

So in general, any blurting out of the phrase “separation of church and state” is echoic of that law and its meaning rather than Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists.