well, the first amendment is what I expected to be used... unfortunately, the phrase "...wall of separation between church and state" is not taken from the first amendment. It is taken from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson... and the meaning is not that church shouldn't have an effect on the state. The state CAN support one religion over another. In context, the phrase simply explains that the government can't make laws that RESTRICT religious practice or doctrinal issues. The state CAN make laws that encourage the practice of any one particular religion, as long as the laws do not RESTRICT the PRACTICE of other religions. Making people uncomfortable isn't a constitutional reason to overturn a law. btw, notice the wording in the first amendment...it only restricts gov't restrictions on religion. Jaeger
Gee, check out the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Also the first item in the Bill of Rights. "Congress shall make no law respecting the
establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
(from memory, so don't bother me with minor wording corrections.)
By standard convention, this is also referred to as "separation of church and state."
As with the clueless AOLers yakking about an "Assimov" story they read a couple of years ago in the 5th grade, you bozos need to get educated and spend a minute or two thinking before writing.