Reply #36: Separation of Church and State is perhaps the most [View All]

important contribution of the United States of America to humanity.
Coupled with the guarantee of free exercise of religion we have the best of all worlds. I certainly have never told anybody to shut up and sit down because of their religion, but public funds should not be used to promote religion. I have no problem if a local church wants to erect an enormous creche. In fact I once saw a live nativity scene and was quite impressed. But I don't want schools to be promoting religion, and I don't want the courthouses to have the Ten Commandments enshrined in them. The US is only a Christian nation in the sense that a lot of Christians live here. Legally, according to the Constitution, it is a secular nation with freedom of, and from religion.