Are you a religious extremist? It’s one thing to put a sign saying “pray for our country” in your yard but very different to insist the Ten Commandments be placed in courthouses and public buildings. The writers of the Constitution were certainly religious men but understood how dangerous religious fanatics are to democracy and therefore separated church and state.
I’ve never been stopped from going to church or practicing my faith but yet there’re people that insist their religious rights are being infringed. The truth seems to be people feel infringed on because they can’t infringe on others. When you integrate politics and religion you are trying to use the government to “establish” a religion, which is, against the First Amendment. The Supreme Court guards against the establishment of religion. Republicans have an entire ideology based on a theological integration for people that aren’t smart enough to see its extremist nature, i.e. the First Amendment Defense Act.
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