Seperation of Church and State? No. Seperation of Any Particular Religion and State. Yes.

The First Amendment is so awesome. It is governmentally and personally to each individual perfect. It comes strait down the middle, and carefully divides the two ideas of Seperation of Church and State and The Absence of Religion Altogether in Government. The two ideas do slightly differ.

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.

Our Government as a Body shall make No Law in Respecting An Establishment of Religion. If it stopped there, we can all conclude seperation of state.  But that same amendment in a continuing thought and not seperate for it is of one amendment and not several, to the individual and collective Bodies of Worship (I will include non religious thought/philosophy) guarantees each freedom of speech, freedom of press or the printed word, and  peaceably assembly. If it stopped here, there still is an slight argument for total seperation. It is the last part of the amendment that slightly changes things. Bodies of Religion are given the right and freedom to as a religion petition the Government for redress of grievences. Inorder to do that Church and State can not be seperate. The unfairly treated Muslim, treated unfairly based on being a Muslim alone has the right to go to the government for protection from this, as does Islam as a whole or any religion or philosophy.

We can all BE openly who we are with out threat in America. How awesome.

In addition, the entire country, "We The People" make up the government or at least the representatives are chosen from all citizens. Therefore, each person has the right to be a representative and be represented, and also has freedom of religion. Therefore, it would be against the first amendment to make any individual, even that is in Government or to be in Goverment, to lay down or hide his or her religion. They must though according to the First, like George Washington, be impartial and fair; granting and extending freedom of religion, philosophy, and atheism to all, but make no laws in respect to any of them, nor their own religion.

Even if one in government arrives to conclusions and solutions through meditation and prayer and scriptures, they must be prepared to give a non religious account to all, even as the Harvard graduate could not just say to people I know the answer because I went to Harvard. The Lord said is inappropiate. There must be clear explanation and reasoning based on problems and solutions and according to our founding principles only, regardless of how you arrived.

Seperation of Church and State is not wholly accurate. But freedom to worship or not, Who and in what way, is for each of us, even those in government.

With Liberty and Justice for All, even the religious or otherwise minded.

God Bless America.

Yulanda K.

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