Letter from Karen Mihan
Church, State Must Remain Separate
In this year marking the 250th anniversary of the founding of the nation, the Trump administration held a prayer vigil for our nation sponsored by Christian Nationalists and Christian Evangelicals.
Christian Nationalists would like our country to throw away the constitutional protections against Church and State impinging upon one another, and they would like to enshrine the idea that the U.S. has always been a Christian nation. It hasn’t been, for good reason.
The founders and authors of the Constitution insisted on the separation of Church and State so that all may worship freely in their own tradition, or not worship at all, without coercion or prejudice.
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