Faith Education (was -RE: [HPFGU-OTChatter] the Eight Days of Chanukah)

[mstattersall]

> Iggy:
> > There is, supposedly written into law, a separation of Church and 
> > State.
> 
> Laura:
> I've always been sort of interested about this, actually.  Where 
does 
> this "separation of Church and State" that is so often cited, 
*come* 
> from, exactly?
> 
Now me, Ms. Tattersall: 
It's not in the Constitution--rather, it's a long-standing 
interpretation--the spirit of the law rather than the letter of it. 
Like Iggy said in the body of his earlier post, the only thing stated 
in the Constitution is that Congress shall make no law establishing a 
state religion. However, a lot of power is invested in the individual 
states, so if the state of Alabama held a referendum specifically for 
the reinstatement of the 10 Commandments monument in its state 
capitol, and the majority of Alabama voters approved it, then back in 
the capitol it should go. I don't think that would ever happen, but 
it is an option.

Ms. Tattersall, hardly a Constitutional scholar, but an interested 
bystander just the same