What happened to seperation between state and church?

Answer 1

There is no mention of "separation of church and state" in the Constitution. The term was made up in 1947 by Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, a former Alabama senator, co-founder of the ACLU, and member of the Ku Klux Klan, to reflect his anti-Catholic bigotry. In the Everson Case, Justice Black purposely misinterpreted a letter sent from Thomas Jefferson to a group of Baptist clergymen to indicate Jefferson supported such a separation. The ministers wrote Jefferson about their fear that the powerful Congregationalist Church and its teachings would become the national religion. Jefferson responded that he favored "a wall of separation" between government and religion to prevent any faith from becoming the national religion. He did not mention any of the stupidity promoted nowadays to take God's name off coins, out of the national anthem or pledge of allegiance, or to restrict the displays of religious symbolism.

Answer 2

I think that as time went by, people began to focus on other things, such as freedom of speech and equality, because a very large percentage of the American people were Christian. Therefore, the seperation of church and state were less important in many ways, and eventually, it was no longer an issue. Now, as religious diversity is more in focus throughout America, it is coming back into view.

Answer 3

It's still there. The separation of church and state means that the state does not take on a national religion, which, last time I checked, the United States still hadn't. It does not mean that the state cannot acknowledge that there might be a god. People just don't care enough to inform themselves of the actual meaning of separation of church and state.

Answer 4

The idea was set up to keep the state from running our church's. Giving church's the right to operate and worship as they choose. It was to prevent the state from endorsing one faith as the countries primary faith. It was not to keep the church out of the state's business. Although many would love to believe that was the intention. I believe the states are doing OK at staying out of the church, though there are times when they overstep their bounds.

Answer 5

It's becoming Separation from Country and Church!

Answer 6

please read the actual constitution, there is no seperation, never way, was not suppose to be, The words were used by Jeffereson, was not to seperate the church from the state, but to protect the church from the state.

Answer 7

It never officially existed, and was a bad idea to begin with. Too many people just believed in a misrepresentation of the First Amemdment.

Answer 8

The king no longer wanted to be controlled by the pope, I forgot which king, might be Henry IV.

Answer 9

What ever made you think there was one? Religion was the first form of government ever developed.

Answer 10

Supreme Court got high invented it then applied it when they wanted to, people started to realize it and are opposing it.