Posted by
Always To The Right on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 3:16:36 AM
No
metaphor in American letters has had a more profound influence on law
and policy than Thomas Jefferson's "wall of separation between church
and state." Today, this figure of speech is accepted by many Americans
as a pithy description of the constitutionally prescribed church?state
arrangement, and it has become the sacred icon of a strict
separationist dogma that champions a secular polity in which religious
influences are systematically and coercively stripped from public life.