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Congress shall pass no law respecting an establishment of religion or the free exercise thereof.
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You read a lot into things.
All it says is that congress shall pass no law. It says nothing about government supporting, endorsing or even practicing a certian religion. It says NOTHING about SEPERATION. All it says is congress can't pass any laws... laws meaning making someone else by law having to practice a particular religion... or not. The key phrase is "pass no law"
Then you pick out one person, Jefferson. In case you forgot there were actually 55. Read what some of them wrote.
Funny how a lot of libs will make such a stretch but then completly ignore the rest of the Constitution... aka Obama.
If in fact you are correct, Church would have never been held in congress like it was for so many years nor would the Ten Commands be hanging in the Supreme Court.
"The first clause states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." Note that it places no restrictions on the states, only Congress. Amendment 10 states "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. Therefore the federal courts have no authority to rule in this matter. "