CHURCH and STATE - Two SEPARATE things!

[FiveGoodMen]

1. Meant to be that way; needs to be that way, but...

...a significant fraction of the US public doesn't want it that way.

GOP leaders want a compliant church to produce a compliant public. And that's been working out well for them since Reagan.

Members of 'evangelical' churches have been convinced that they're in a war for their survival (and also that god really WANTS them to run things) so they have no qualms about violating church/state separation.

We keep citing these documents and their history as though they will protect us. They won't.

The only thing that's ever protected us was people's respect for those concepts and those documents.

If the public loses that respect, then the Constitution really is 'just a piece of paper' as Dubya was quoted saying.

We reassure ourselves that our understanding of this is correct -- and it is -- but that isn't swaying those who are against us.