SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE

Bill of Rights: First Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

How was this to be understood? How did our founders understand this amendment? We must look no further than Justice Joseph Story's Commentary on the Constitution of the United States for the answer. Justice Story was the founder of Harvard Law School and was nominated to the Supreme Court by none other than the secularist darling, President James Madison. Here is what he Justice Story said in his Commentary:

"We are not to attribute this [First Amendment] prohibition of a national religious establishment to an indifference to religion in general, and especially to the Christianity... An attempt to level all religions and to make it a matter of state policy to holy all in utter indifference would have created universal disapprobation if not universal indignation."

Justice Story goes on to say:

"The real object of the [First] Amendment was not to countenance, much less to advance, Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects."

So why all the confusion? Simple: The secular pluralists got their constitutions mixed up:

U.S.S.R. Constitution: Article 124:

In order to ensure citizens freedom of conscience, the church in the U.S.S.R. is separate from the State, and the school from the church.