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[Jefferson's novel idea of keeping government out of the church]

http://www.boundless.org/2005/articles/a0000601.cfm

Oh Jefferson and "the great majority" went a little beyond that:

"Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination."
-Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, in reference to the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom

http://www.history1700s.com/etext/html/texts/jefferson/jeff1.txt

"THE INSERTION [of Jesus Christ] WAS REJECTED BY THE GREAT MAJORITY"

FOF seems to have left that part out; evidently only marketing a selective reflection of American history that profits them... whereas Jefferson's ideal that "ALMIGHTY GOD HATH CREATED THE MIND FREE" - is better relflected by:

"The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true."
--Albert Einstein