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Originally Posted by temporaryscars
Bzzt, wrong. Google "First Amendment" and read it and show me where it says "There must be seperation of Church and State." The idea of SoCaS is something we came up with through time and decide mutually that it was a good idea. It's established through presidence of law.
Anyway, in he end, it's just a friggin statue, and it should be up to the state to decide.
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You're right the seperation of Church and state was however the will of the framers of the constitution:
Thomas Jefferson, as president, wrote a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association of Connecticut on 1802-JAN-1. It contains the first known reference to the "wall of separation". The essay states in part:
"...I contemplate with solemn reverence that act of the whole American people 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..."
During the 1810's, President James Madison wrote an essay titled "Monopolies" which also refers to the importance of church-state separation. He stated in part:
"Strongly guarded as is the separation between religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history."
