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Originally posted by Tervuren
You are getting mixed up. I said seperation of church and state. Not religion and state. There should NOT be a federal church, and the federal government, should not be run by the church.
I am not saying that an elected official should completey neglect any beleif he has so as to "seperate" his relgion from running the state, far far from it. I am saying that the government should not run the church, and the church should not run the government. Look at what happened with Catholicism.
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I think we pretty much agree. And it's clear that the federal government cannot pass any laws to establish or deny a particular religion. But that does not imply that state or local governments cannot pass laws establishing a particular religion. The various state constitutions would ideally have had similar amendments as the U.S. Constitution regarding freedom of religion.