[LarryLied]

Separation of church and state is an ideal I read about somewhere.

An ideal? For whom? It is nowhere in the constitution. It was put into constitutional law by the former Klu Klan Klan member, nativist and anti-Catholic bigot, Hugo Black in 1947. In the last 4 years, the Supremee Court has dropped the Separation metaphor. They have not yet replaced it with anything. So we had Separation from about 1947-98, not before and not since.

[ThinkLikeWaterAndReeds]

An ideal? For whom? It is nowhere in the constitution. It was put into constitutional law by the former Klu Klan Klan member, nativist and anti-Catholic bigot, Hugo Black in 1947. In the last 4 years, the Supremee Court has dropped the Separation metaphor. They have not yet replaced it with anything. So we had Separation from about 1947-98, not before and not since.

Right, now I remember, it was Tommy. You remember, Thomas Jefferson, one of the guys that was there when the Constitution was written. He might have a good idea of the meaning of the First Amendment. In responding to a letter from the Danbury Baptist Association, Tommy wrote a letter in which he stated "...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". Maby your buddy Hugo read that letter too. With all due respect, maybe Tommy is better qualified than you to determin the meaning of the First Amendment. Build the wall high and strong!