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The separation of church and state is not some new-fangled 'looney left' notion. It is established precedent based on decades of Constitutional scholarship. It protects, by the way, both the religious AND the secular elements of society.
well, if you want to base it on precedent, there goes your gay marriage....
you guys -- you claim precedent (which really doesn't exist in the separation that you claim goes back to the beginning -- the present form of the separation of church and state started in the 60's with Madelyn O'Hair.
The separation of church and state is not some new-fangled 'looney left' notion. It is established precedent based on decades of Constitutional scholarship. It protects, by the way, both the religious AND the secular elements of society.
well, if you want to base it on precedent, there goes your gay marriage....
you guys -- you claim precedent (which really doesn't exist in the separation that you claim goes back to the beginning -- the present form of the separation of church and state started in the 60's with Madelyn O'Hair.