There has never been a shortage of people arguing for a secular government if that secular ideology was their own. Our Founding Fathers decided that this path was a perilous one and chose a non-secular way forward. Our 1st Amendment contains many of our rights and freedoms, but the first among them is our freedom of religion which is contained in two clauses as follows:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;”
Known as the “establishment clause” and the “exercise clause,” these provisions work together to create what Thomas Jefferson referred to as “a wall of separation between Church and State” in these United States of America. Let’s dig just a wee bit deeper.
I clearly see the interpretation protecting the church from the government and you can probably see it as well. What I am not seeing are the words that protect the government from the church. Walls and fences work in both directions so we know that religious ideology should now be found in our laws, but that is exactly what happened with the Supreme Court last Friday when they announced their Opinion overturning the fifty-year old protections of Roe vs. Wade.
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