Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church and State.
-Thomas Jefferson letter to To Messrs. Nehemiah Dodge and Others, A Committee of the Danbury Baptist Association in the State of Connecticut dated January 1, 1802
“Danbury Baptist Association”
Exactly. It’s in a letter to a church, ensuring that the state would not interfere with the church.
But it’s not in any founding documents. And it’s not about keeping religious people out of politics (as too many in our nation believe).
Too many people think “separation of church and state” is in the Constitution or DoC. But it’s not.