Re: seperation of church & state?

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You really can't have total seperation of church and state,
since every elected official has a belief system, of some sort,
and brings that with him/her to the office. That belief system
will affect their judgement in proposing or supporting
legislation.

This is why I say that the 1st Amendment is only meant to
prevent the State from establishing a State religion.

On 7/26/04, SFanua, 2nd Yr Law Student- Saratoga Uni Sch of Law
wrote:
> Well 1st Amendment to deep for me to cross. However,
> my suggestions, we should look closely to the Constitution-
> First Amendment base in the federalism and state
> establishment with in the context of religion and public
> life. I have to agree there is no evidence of such delegated
> power in the constitution (1st Amend.). However, the Bill of
> Right suggestions that the religion clauses of the 1st
> Amendment are meant to be taken broadly rather then
> narrowly. I agree with previous post and I believe it has to
> come from History of America going back to the founders of
> America. If we could microscope ply examine each famous
> founder and look in to their religion believe, their public
> life and theirs ideology with regards to separation of
> church and state (e.g. Virginia in 1786 enacted Jefferson’s
> Bill for the establishment of religions liberty etc. Please
> read “The First Freedoms" pp 134- 138), we might see the
> difficult parcel start to come together. However, we should
> also take into account the argument of accomodationists:
> simply to bar the establishment of a state church, vs.
> separationists: believe that the founders intended to
> separate church and State and the framers: related to the
> waning of establishment.
>
> Thank you
> SFanua, 2nd Yr Law Student
>
> On 7/08/04, anonymous wrote:
>> I have copies of the Constitution, all the amendments, and
>> a large collection of the writings of the founding fathers.
>>
>> I have read over them many times and can not find the
>> section where seperation of church and state is defined.
>>
>> All that the 1st Amendment says is that Congress shall
> make
>> no law abriding the freedom of religion or the practice
>> thereof. (Although that part was conveniently tossed out
> in
>> the early part of the 19th century).
>>
>> So, where is said seperation defined/stated/etc?