I never quoted Thomas Jefferson nor discussed a wall. Maybe you have been replying to the wrong post.
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The establishment clause prohibits the government from passing legislation to establish an official religion or preferring one religion over another. Also known as "separation of church and state". If you ever go to Phila, please... please... please... go to the new Constitution center and educate yourself. Serious... 12 posted on 11/12/2005 11:59:46 AM EST by trashcanbred (Anti-social and anti-socialist)
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Thomas Jefferson's wall of separation comment. Which is the genesis of the term you used.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man & his god, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate 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.