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To: longnshort who wrote (255316)	10/14/2005 12:41:48 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573629

"In the United States, separation of church and state is governed by the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and by legal precedents interpreting that clause. The actual term, "separation of church and state", does not appear in the constitution, but rather comes from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson to a group identifying themselves as the Danbury Baptists. Ulysses S. Grant also called for Americans to "Keep the church and state forever separate." PS: Actually the founding fathers go even further that demanding separation, they outright question the divinity of Christ, warn us about fundamentalist activists trying to dictate their beliefs on us and even the founders of the GOP and modern conservatism were very much against evangelical activism and moral dictatorship. So add to the list Washington, Franklin, Madison, Lincoln and Goldwater among many others. The current religious right is busy trying to change the constitution, revise history and re-interpret our separation of church and state laws, but we have to stop them. They're potentially dangerous as their real goal is repression and some sort of theocracy based on their beliefs which are often unrealistic and supressive.