[TheRealThing]

Very well said sir.

Your post demonstrates correctly, the method in which state and federal government should view statesmanship. Unlike in my posts, in which I freely interject Biblical doctrine and apply interpretive opinion. That's just the approach I have chosen to take. But the government's role is to provide as you say, freedom of religion, or the freedom to practice their religion. Not hit the people over the head with any authoritative direction on what is right or wrong, accept that which is definable in a moral sense as outlined in our system of law to be an offense deserving of punishment for the greater good of society. The freedom we enjoy is the-sky-is-the-limit to do anything we want that is not looked down upon by law.

Ironically while the left condemns anyone who respectfully and humbly espouses Christianity in their public daily lives, (which BTW is exactly the intention of our Creator), in a way consisting of what the Lord has described as "our reasonable service:" they are themselves so far round the bend in opposition to that, that they feel entirely justified in legislating conservatives in this land, often to the point of being excluded from acceptance within or without of government circles, into a secularly acceptable subjection. The Framers were certainly not bashful about giving their own just deference to God, and went to obvious lengths to say as much in the founding documents. The left have erred in a bristling defense of the separation of Church and State to the point of diagnosable clinical overkill. As you have stated; legally, the pendulum is to hang perpendicular; and not lean with bias in either direction. Hanging there in perfect balance, not to exclusion of any soul irrespective of his stead with the Almighty. That kind of a wall of separation I can accept.

I believe in the left's rabid zealotry in defense and prosecution of liberalism, they have lost all respect for any other viewpoint. And either fail epically to recognize their own encroachment of other's rights, or just don't care anymore. Likely both.