Problem is ,they never understood true liberty and freedom because of separation of Church and state -which is an anathema by the Church. So, when you proceed from separating Church from State, liberty and true freedom become distorted and blind people from seeking God by offering sin disguised as freedom.
It should be no surprise to you that true freedom is NOT sex on TV ,abortion , pornography etc.. all protected under the law in the US and called human liberty and freedom
Well of course it's not, dear brother in Christ! But that is not liberty; that is license. As "permitted" by the overweening State. The sort of license that damns one's soul before God in His good time. The fact is, if we stay close to what the Constitution says, we couldn't be fooled into not drawing the distinction between natural, God-given liberty and human license.
There are NO political solutions to this problem, only spiritual ones.
Still it seems you do not understand the sense of danger that I have in any combination, or fusion, of secular and spiritual authority under any purely human government. In such an organizational arrangement, man's natural propensity for evil will drag down the spiritual life of mankind altogether.
Thus the wisdom of the Holy Bible: "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and unto God what is God's."
To me, this is the true meaning of "the separation of Church and State." It wasn't to remove religious experience and expression from the Public Square; it was to ensure that politicians did not commandeer a person's private conscience for "public purposes."
Or so it seems to me, FWIW.
Thank you for writing, dear brother in Christ!