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comment by hootsbox

Which is a faulty SCOTUS decision based on a Thomas Jefferson letter that had the opposite intent from what the biased SCOTUS decision "found" in the 1st Amendment that isn't really there (like Dred Scott). The Baptists were petioning the Virginia legislature to not have their voice shut out. The statement "wall of separation" came out of Jefferson's response with the main intent being that "government" should not favor one denomination over another. Out of that, we get the "fabrication" of the separation of church and state that you allude to, but is totally baseless in the nation's founding discussions, the founding state constitutions and most of our history. It wasn't until the 1950's that a biased, ACLU slanted SCOTUS made this fabricated ruling which should be overturned due to its faulty rationale. However, the Congress, in the last 90 years, remains "gutless" to pursue the Constitutional remedy. The fact remains the "buzzwords" you so readily toss about are capacious talking points promoted and kept alive by an all too complicit and slanted mainstream press and career politicians more interested in preserving their political "hides" than doing the right thing.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/billflax/2011/07/09/the-true-meaning-of-separation-of-church-and-state/

http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danbury.html