Separation of Church & State
Criticizing Charlie Kirk’s memorial, former CNN host Don Lemon claims that “true freedom of religion is possible only if we honor the absolute separation of church and state.”
IN FACT, the foundational document of the U.S. declares that our “unalienable Rights” come from our “Creator,” and the purpose of government is to “secure these rights.” In contrast, “separation of church and state” is a doctrine that leftists use to trample these rights:
- The Constitution of the Soviet Union, a regime that viciously repressed freedom of religion and all other rights, requires that the “church” be “separated from the state.”
- Vladimir Lenin, the primary founder and first leader of the Soviet Union, stated that “we reject ethics” based on “God’s commandments” and “our morality is entirely subordinated to the interests” of advancing Communism.
- Another Soviet leader stated, “There is neither soil nor sap on which religion can feed in the USSR” because “the Church is separated from the state — and the schools are in the hands of the state.”
- The Fascist Manifesto demands “rigidly secular” schools.
- The U.S. Constitution forbids government from making laws “respecting an establishment of religion” or “prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” but it doesn’t call for “separation of church and state,” and it doesn’t require that all laws be based on atheistic morals.
- Leftists claim that the Constitution requires “separation of church and state,” because this phrase appears in a reply by Thomas Jefferson to a church association that wrote to Jefferson about the State of Connecticut flouting their freedom of religion.
- Jefferson’s reply says nothing about religious morals being excluded from government but that government can’t impose religious doctrines on the church.
- The same leftists disregard Jefferson’s explicit statement in the Declaration of Independence that “unalienable Rights” come from our “Creator.”
- The same leftists disregard Jefferson’s explicit statement about the Constitution forbidding the federal government from enacting social programs, which now comprise most federal government spending.
- The same leftists disregard Martin Luther King, Jr.’s explicit statement that “a just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God.”
- The same leftists disregard Abraham Lincoln’s explicit statement that the only way to “know right from wrong” is the Bible.
Every law imposes someone’s morals on society, including laws about murder, civil rights, welfare, taxes, pollution, bribery, speeding, and perjury. By demanding that religious morals be excluded from government, leftists try to use the power of the state to exclusively impose their own morals on everyone else.
