Dismissing the separation of church and state as “junk,” Lauren Boebert said, “The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not supposed to direct the church.”
The letter that Boebert referred to was written by Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Association. Although the letter is where the term “separation of church and state” originates in American politics, Jefferson says in the letter that the separation is derived from the First Amendment of the Constitution.
that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.
The doctrine that the U.S. government should operate independently from the influence of religious beliefs or causes was also enshrined in laws that were passed during the nation’s earlier years,. Enacted when Jefferson’s rival, President John Adams, was newly inaugurated, the treaty clearly asserts that “the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion.
Boebert’s comments, which clearly contradict the text of the Constitution, are indicative of the right wing’s embrace of white supremacist and Christian nationalist ideals. This past week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to encroach upon the separation between church and state by
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