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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Campaign Adviser Jenna Ellis: Separation of Church and State Is a Liberal Lie
The concept of a firewall between church and state authorities, Ellis claimed, is a mere twisting a letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Church that was simply talking about the three tiers of authority that god himself ordainedthe church government, the civil government, and the family government.
Such an interpretation of Jeffersons 1802 letterwhich the Supreme Court affirmed in 1879 as an authoritative declaration of the First Amendment clause prohibiting government entanglement in religionhas long been a key argument of conservative Christian leaders seeking to end the separation, which serves as the basis for Americas historically pluralistic society. But its not altogether common for a top official of a presidential campaign to so forcefully adopt such a position and its further proof that Trumphardly an observant man himselfhas strategically allowed his presidency to become a vessel for the religious right.
During Monday evenings remarks, Ellis advanced her argument against the separation of church and state by invoking and defending the presidents now-infamous walk from the White House to St. Johns Episcopal Church for a Bible-holding photo opwhich was made possible by police tear-gassing a crowd of peaceful protestersas a valiant stand against those forsake religious authority.
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Religious nut.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)VMA131Marine
(4,159 posts)Its not surprising shes a nutjob
Nevilledog
(51,281 posts)rurallib
(62,478 posts)unblock
(52,489 posts)according to the right wing. evil government making people dependent on government checks, depriving them of the freedom to stand on their own, etc.
but when they muck about in religion, coercing prayer in school, taxing the people to fund religion, etc., the same right wing is just fine and dandy with all that.
these fools forget that the separation of church and state was done to protect the church as much as it was done to protect the state and the people.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Conservative Christianity. They don't agree that Islam or Bahai or any other religion should have influence on government.
keithbvadu2
(37,039 posts)What will they say/do when it is not their version of Christianity in charge?
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/americas-true-history-of-religious-tolerance-61312684/?no-ist= ;
Madison also made a point that any believer of any religion should understand: that the government sanction of a religion was, in essence, a threat to religion. "Who does not see," he wrote, "that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?" Madison was writing from his memory of Baptist ministers being arrested in his native Virginia.
Thekaspervote
(32,820 posts)While youre there, since you are a woman and will have plenty of time for simple womanly things read the constitution. You might like as you termed it liberal lies.