Contrary to popular opinion, the term “separation of church and state” is found nowhere in the United States Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, or any other founding document of this nation. Yet for decades, some organizations and individuals have spread the myth that the words “separation of church and state” are found in the U.S. Constitution. Because of this misinformation, the ACLU and its allies have used this phrase to persuade public officials to silence religious expression.
It's was a liberal Supreme Court Justice in 1947 who erected the “separation of church and state” based on eight words taken out of context from an obscure letter written by Jefferson to a Baptist Association over a minor issue. On this flimsy pretext the liberal Supreme Court at the time changed the meaning of the first amendment, from protecting the church from the government, to protecting the government from the church.
Yes, I know that. The claim was that the phrase 'separation of church and state' had been coined by some liberal. It wasn't; it was first used (as far as we know) by Thomas Jefferson in 1801.
Yet for decades, some organizations and individuals have spread the myth that the words “separation of church and state” are found in the U.S. Constitution.
You can document this, of course?
Nor is "Freedom of Religion".