[Right Wing Professor]

Your Madison quote is bogus. It appears in one place - the writing of the man who claims Madison says it - and one place only. All references to the quote come from that one source. He has no idea where he got it. He has no notes on where he got it. It does not exist in Madison's hand or in any contemporaneous record of him either saying it or writing it.

Not only that, but the sentiments it expresses are directly opposite to others Madison most certainly expressed. For example.

The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well-meaning Christians, as well as in the corrupt hearts of persecuting usurpers, that without a legal incorporation of religious and civil polity, neither could be supported.

[jwalsh07]

Not only that, but the sentiments it expresses are directly opposite to others Madison most certainly expressed. For example.

Try this on for size. Jefferson wrote and Madison proposed a law criminalizing the breaking of the Sabbath in Virginia.

It's never that easy.

And BTW, the law passed.