I am constantly amazed at how timid we are in these confrontations. Separation of Church and State is NOT in the Constitution as most assume. It is a convention that started with Baptists in Connecticut irritated with the state sanctioned Episcopal Church. Jefferson penned this phrase during this disagreement. It later grew in strength as a Protestant strategy to curtain Catholic involvement and it is now a beast of their own creation that has turned on them. The bottom line is that it is not Constitutional and should be challenged at every turn.
And, I believe, at that time, the Anglican Church was actually state funded, was it not?
So, the First Amendment was actually set forth to do the OPPOSITE of what the libs claim.