Separating Church and State: Vomit-Inducing or Necessary for Freedom of Religion?

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Feb 27, 2012 2:44pm
By Z. Byron Wolf

Newt Gingrich said the country is under attack by a the “secular left,” Mitt Romney is concerned about President Obama’s “secular agenda” and Rick Santorum has said repeatedly that the idea of an absolute separation of church and state makes him want to “throw up.”

As the Republican presidential campaign drags on, the idea of a secular government is increasingly under fire. And Obama is personally under fire from Republican candidates, particularly Santorum, who recently said the president’s theology, especially where it comes to environmental laws, is “phony.”

Obama’s former press secretary said that comment “crossed the line.”

But Americans by more than a 2-1 margin, 66 percent to 29 percent, say political leaders should not rely on their religious beliefs in making policy decisions,” according to an ABC News-Washington Post poll from September of 2011.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/separating-church-and-state-vomit-inducing-or-necessary-for-freedom-of-religion/

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1. Getting government out of religion ensures its freedom

Otherwise, we'd be like theocratic dictatorships like Iran and Saudi Arabia where non-Muslims are either treated like second-class citizens at best or jailed and/or executed at worst. If that's what Sanitorium wants, I say "absolutely not."

I'm not going to allow power-worshipping, poor-hating, woman-bashing, money-loving, racist neo-Pharisees tell me what to do. If I want to live conservatively, I'll do so at my own free will.

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2. Ayatollah Santorum

I'm pulling for Romney 'cause Santorum is getting scarey. How ironic that the Ayatollah Santorum hates Iran when he would make a Christian Theocracy of the United States. And in his own demented mind he thinks its what the founding fathers wanted. I only ask this much of the church in my state: God deliver us from the Ayatollah Santorum!

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3. As the wonderful James Madison argued...

separation of Church and State is good for both the State for the Religion but the mingling of the two would be corrupting for both.