And you get Thomas Paine, who's the least religious Founding Father saying, you've got to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that.

The 1947 Court (Everson v. Board of Education) for the first time had used only Jefferson's metaphor - completely divorced from its context and intent.

The current version of... separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside the four walls of the church.

Separation of church and state is the big club pulled out to beat back the Christians .

It is interesting to note that during the last ten years Washington's 'Farewell Address' has begun to reappear in college textbooks - minus the four religious warnings.

The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.

Only majorities can expand political rights in America's constitutional society.