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Originally posted by darksoft
Separation of church and state gets so used so much but for unknown reasons.
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
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Right from the 1st Amendment. I'm not saying we should have any religious groups in charge of the government or running things behind closed doors but separation of church and state is simply not in the constitution.
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Yet if one reads things like The Federalist Papers and numerous other writings authored by the founding fathers that drafted the consitution you will see the term "separation of church and state" used.
It is called the "spirit of the law". The words "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" are pretty dang clear to me. Yet this administration has pushed through Congress "faith based initiatives" that have become law. I'm no scolar of juris prudence but that seems a bit UNconstitutional.