-- a story about how adults
build walls of separation, that children can easily bring down through their love and innocence — «for even the toughest walls shall not stand strong when faced with a child's innocence.»
«Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus
building a wall of separation between Church & State.»
Thomas Jefferson wrote, «I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus
building a wall of separation between Church & State.
«Believing... that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their Legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus
building a wall of separation between Church and State.»
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus
building a wall of separation between church and State.
Not exact matches
* My point, again, as I understand it in terms
of our 1st amendment, and freedom
of speech, was to (
build in) a «
wall»
of separation of church and government... (because)
of «Christianity,» since you are talking about our country, so as not to have - anyone's freedom
of speech and their civil liberties trampled on.
I think there ought to be a strict
separation or
wall built between our religious faith and our practice
of political authority in office.
Even the hallowed phrase that the First Amendment
built «a
wall of separation between church and state» saw the light
of day not in a court ruling or piece
of legislation, but in a letter from President Jefferson to the Danbury, Connecticut, Baptist Association in 1802.
His letter to the Danbury Baptist Association was a short note
of courtesy, written 14 years after the amendments were passed by Congress... There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the framers intended to
build the «
wall of separation» that was constitutionalized in Everson.
This figure derives from an earlier painting,
Wall Jumpers (2002), the source
of which was a media image showing Palestinians scrambling over the
separation barrier
built by Israel in the occupied territories.
At a time when there have been reports
of married couples considering divorces and
separation because one partner wants to
build the
wall and one wants to deal in, how does one date and debate politics?