Regardless of how the atheists fantasize that it is so, there is no "separation of church and state" in the Constitution. It all stems from the deliberate misinterpretation of a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to a council of churches when he was president. This is, incidentally, the only instance I can think of wherein the leftists use an extraneous writing to make an argument stick. They certainly don't use the Federalist Papers to the same effect--because those don't say what the leftists want them to say.
The First Amendment states:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Common decency would have kept these nutjobs in the shadows where they belong, if only decency were still reasonably common.
Churches used to hand out bibles and copies of the new testament in schools when I was a kid. No harm came to any of us as a result.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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Government schools violate free speech of every child forced into one of its prisons ( oops! “schools”).
Government schools violate free assembly of every child forced into one of it holding pens ( oops! “schools”).
Government schools control the free press of every child forced into one of its indoctrination centers ( Oops! “schools”).
Government schools curtail the ability to peacefully assemble with those of the child’s or parent’s choosing. This is true for of every child forced into one of its propaganda tanks.
The ability of a child to freely express and practice his faith is strictly controlled by the government toadies ( misnamed “teachers”) who run these mind molding machines ( oops ! “schools”).
Government schooling is a First Amendment and freedom of conscience abomination to all those under its police enforced thumb....and...to all under police threat to fund them.