[Mariner]

"Thus the Congressional Chaplain is unconstitutional. Military chaplains likewise unconstitutional. Input from the public square by people of faith unconstitutional. Priests, Pastors and Rabbis in Congress unconstitutional. "

Those people have no role in the operation of the government.

[jwalsh07]

Those people have no role in the operation of the government.

So a Congressman who happens to be na priest has no operational role in government? Soldiers are not governmentr operators either? You need to look up the word operate pal. Once again this is not what Santorum meant but I'm going to make you eat your nastiness anyway. Do special operators perform functions for the government or are all grunts mercs? Keep in mind pe3rforming a function is the definition of operate.

[robowombat]

Madison did want to have none of these. Not because he was a crypto-free thinker, as atheists were then called, but because he firmly believed contact between government and religious institutions inevitably led to the corruption and debasement of religion and attempt by government to use religion for secular ends.