[sauropod]

"But I am not willing to embrace certain Christians' claims that America is fundamentally a religious country..."

Then you ignore history.

"...nor will I sanction their attempts to employ the coercive powers of the State to in any manner impede on anyone's religious freedom."

If the State were equally tolerant of all religions then I would agree with you.

The State is not equally tolerant of Christianity compared with Islam or even Judiasm. The latter are favored as we saw at Christmas time.

"...but I am a staunch supporter of full separation of Church and State."

Itself an unConstitutional and unhistorical view.

[UCANSEE2]

Again, this minor mistake.

The Constitution and Bill of Rights are referring to a 'separation of the POWERS of CHURCH and STATE. Not separation of CHURCH and STATE.

Nowhere did the founding fathers state they wanted the CHURCH and STATE completely separate,as the Christian principles guided the forming of the constitution and bill of rights.

It's ON THE MONEY. In GOD WE TRUST.

[tpaine]

"...nor will I sanction their attempts to employ the coercive powers of the State to in any manner impede on anyone's religious freedom."

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If the State were equally tolerant of all religions then I would agree with you.
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"...but I am a staunch supporter of full separation of Church and State."

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Itself an unConstitutional and unhistorical view.
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Your first reply belies your 2nd.

You say separation of Church and State is in itself an unConstitutional view. --

-- Then you turnabout and say; -- I will support sanctioning attempts to employ the coercive powers of the State to in any manner impede on anyone's religious freedom."

Your logic needs work.