Re: seperation of church & state?

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On 10/08/04, just a kid wrote:
> On 7/08/04, US Supreme Court case law wrote:
>> The phrase "separation of church and state" is from a US
>> Supreme Court decision interpreting the 1st Amendment.
> How does some one get to the point of taking away the
> teaching of religion in schools by this small article. It is
> only stated to keep the government from establishing a national
> religion. It should be a teachers decesion to teach religion
> in class or to keep it out.

Public schools are closely tied in with the government, and this
would ultimately mean disregarding their seperation. That is
between the church and state.