Separation of Church and State

The Founders stated we needed virtueous leaders in high office, in order to keep the government from beoming corrupt. They also stated from religion comes morality, from morality comes virtue, from virtue comes good government.

The Founders never intended the banning of religious opinion from the government. Almost all of our major Federal buildings in D.C. have religious sayings engraved in their facades. The Supreme Court has the 10 commandments, which are the 10 natural laws God demands of us are inscribed in multiple places. Moses is the central statue tic figure in the gabled roof line of the courthouse.

We hear ny people throw out the term "Separation of Church and State" anytime a law is mentioned in the same breathe as religion. If you refine it down to the least common denominator, isn't law derived from religion? The necessity to do right,verses wrong. To conduct ourselves in a good way verses doing evil.

In the days of our mid-18th century Founders, it was a time not far removed, when the Pope held much say in the affairs of many, if not all of the 11th-17th century European nations. The Spanish Inquisition was a scant two hundred year old history lesson for our Founders.

Often seats in a Government could only be held by a Vatican approved Arch Bishop.These figures voted the Vatican policy and were not allowed the independence to vote the will of the people. As some of the Popes had been shown to be fallible, during the Dark Ages, many European nations, England in particular, saw this as a threat to their sovereignty and monarchical rule thus the move to establish a separation between the government and church. Never did it say legislature members or legislature itself had to be free from any religious based beliefs. Our Founders did believe good governance and religious morality went hand in glove, however it was to be left to the consent of the people via majority rules as to how much or how little was enough.

Today We The People lament our views are not being represented, that the Majority does not rule, rather it is the minority or special interest that rule. This has to change.


Steve