[TheRealThing]

As a Baptist, we have argued for Separation of Church and State, in fact that reference is made to a Baptist Minister!

Much of the reason our forefathers fled England was to escape the state church, more specifically the Church of England. Since it was a church established by the state, it was controlled by the state, and not the Lord.

As with most state agencies and authorities, the Church of England was rife with corruption. The autonomous monarch Mad King George, was the head of the church, which was nothing much more than another arm of his monarchy. If one therefore made an enemy in church, he may well find himself up on charges before the crown. By all accounts a miserable situation for all, except the unscrupulous rats who did the King's bidding. Imagine expanding the authority of the police, FBI and the CIA, to include the possibility of facing charges for every possible moral trespass as back dropped against the dictates and doctrine of the official Anglican Church?

It's a small wonder then that very situation is addressed directly in the founding documents of this land. The First Amendment; "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Notice it does not say the Church shall not thus and so, it says the Congress shall not. It is the Congress which is restricted, not the Church.

The "wall of separation" as suggested by Thomas Jefferson was intended to keep the prying eyes of government out of the affairs of the Church. But nowhere, did Jefferson or any other signer of the Declaration of Independence, suggest even in the thinnest of terms, that the Church should have no impact on government.

In fact, the reason that the subject, as has been the view of he court since 1947, had never come to dispute prior to that time was because of the high ratio of statesmen who unashamedly espoused the Christian faith at the time. The majority of public officials were Christian in fact, and would have never suffered such a thought prior to then. Frankly, it has still taken 68 or so years of history for the liberals to get as far as they have using the twisted and distorted interpretation you seem to suggest tv.

Like Satan in the Garden who twisted God's own words in order to deceive Eve, liberals with a mouths full of guile have managed to twist traditional American values into something ghoulish and unnatural. The wall of separation was never intended to keep the precepts of God out of government, man was never intended to marry man, and he certainly was never meant to murder 60 plus million unborn innocents in their mother's wombs.

Who do I blame for the unfortunate state of affairs we see around us? The Church. In much the same fashion as the present generation suffers from a disconnect with regard to the cost and value of freedom. The Church in America has had it so easy for so long, that we are no longer in awe of our own good fortune. And, as a consequence, we have lost the fire to do the Lord's bidding. The ratio of Christian statesmen on the "Hill" in our time is likely the reverse of the way it was in 1947. Hence the avalanche of legislation and regulations that are in opposition to the precepts of Christ. And, all the while the lost have cried; "separation of Church and state." Why would they do that? Because, the only authority which is higher that the authority of government, is the authority of God. And, like nativity scenes and plaques featuring the 10 Commandments, they don't want to be reminded of it.

2 Chronicles 7:14 (KJV)
14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.