"Separation of church and state - idea that the government and religion should be separate, and not interfere in each other's affairs. In the United States, this idea is based on the First Amendment to the US Constitution, which states that the government cannot make any laws to establish a state religion or prohibit the free exercise of religion."
http://www.historycentral.com/Civics/S.htmlThis "Compassion Forum" and religion crap has gotten me riled up so I've been reading some on the separation of church and state, going through the link below. I am appalled that my country seems to have regressed from a "separation of church and state" state to a fundamentalist religious one. Incredible.
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/tnppage/tnpidx.htmhttp://members.tripod.com/~candst/tnppage/viewidx.htmThe debate over church/state separation is fundamentally a debate about the meaning of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Briefly, one side in the debate believes that the Constitution gives government the power to regulate some aspects of religion, and that the First Amendment bars only the establishment of a national church. The other side in the debate believes that the Constitution gives government no power over religion, and that the First Amendment should be broadly read to ban all types of interference with religion. In this section we identify what parts of the Constitution are at issue in the debate, and lay out the positions of both sides in greater detail.
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