Sentences with phrase «wall between church»

In Mr. Behr's view, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold those vouchers breaks down the wall between church and state, weakening the opportunity for religious people and schools to stay independent and be a conscience for society.

The similarities in plight are not incidental, despite the supposed high wall between church and state.

Separatists balk, and are relying on the courts to buttress the wall between church and state.

Republicans have no problems pandering towards the jews and their wall in Israel, but wouldn't even think for a second to smash the wall between church and state into a million pieces.

If xtians didn't constantly try and chip away at the wall between church and state, there would be no need for the man above to do what he does.

Richard John Neuhaus» comment on Douglas Laycock's «Substantive Neutrality Revisited» law - review article (While We're At It, June / July 2008) referred to Philip Hamburger's 2002 book Separation of Church and State as a «magnificent» debunking of Jefferson's wall between church and state.

Thank goodness for the wisdom of our Founding Fathers who put the wall between church and state after seeing how religion suppresses freedom.

no, the best way to keep us on the straight and narrow is to make the wall between all churches and state higher and wider.

When they hear talk of faith - based initiatives, they imagine the walls between church and state being dismantled.

Not exact matches

«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.»

When it comes to the courts, our narrative would begin in the mid-twentieth century when the American judiciary was guided by an interpretation of the First Amendment that posited a «wall of separation» between «church and state.»

Washington (CNN)- Thomas Jefferson famously wrote about the wall of separation between church and state.

The guiding metaphor, the «wall of separation between church and state,» first appeared in a letter written by Thomas Jefferson 14 years after the First Amendment was drafted.

The precious wall of separation between church and state was rebuilt higher and more solid than ever.

Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion to another... in the words of Jefferson, the [First Amendment] clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect «a wall of separation between church and State»... That wall must be kept high and impregnable.

I found myself in a crowd that seemed to be made up of at least half a million people, crushed between the walls on either side of the road as they made their way to the Church of the Black Virgin.

So those Christians who are so eager to break down the wall of separation between church and state would be well - adivsed to rethink their positions.

What makes it vexing is that, when it comes to church / state questions, Americans have traditionally opted for a middle path between a theocratic marriage and Great - Wall - of - China - style separation.

Jefferson's letter in response argued for a very different concept - a «wall of separation between Church & State» - that, according to him, was enshrined in the First Amendment.

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.

Some continue to believe, mistakenly, that our constitutional «wall of separation» between church and state prohibits serious study of religion in public schools.

What Jefferson defined, rather extravagantly, as «the absolute wall of separation between church and state» has been a creative but also dangerous characteristic of our national culture.

Jesus would do the following (in the U.S.A.): medicare for all, legalize all drugs, legalize gay marriage, destroy the wall between the U.S.A. and Mexico and consequently give the U.S. border patrol agents something useful and productive to do, end U.S. military aggression around the world, direct election of U.S. presidents, the national initiative for democracy, urge Christians to be more productive on Sundays instead of seeing who can wear the nicest clothes to church.

Democrats, invoking Thomas Jefferson's metaphor of a «wall of separation between church and state,» responded the rise of the Religious Right in the late seventies by arguing that religion was a private matter that should have no place in political life.

Does someone want to talk about «the wall of separation between church and state»?

If a wall of separation is erected between religion and the state (and its schools), that wall will prove to be a tomb in which church, state, and schools will decay with a civilization that has lost its soul.

In support of this position the famous Jeffersonian doctrine of the «wall of separation» between church and state is regularly invoked.

Thomas Jefferson was very concerned to keep a strong wall of separation between church and state.

And SCOTUS thru their rulings and writings have stated that there indeed is a wall of separation between church and state.

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.

A whole contingent of evangelical Joshuas has arrived on the scene, hoping to bring down the wall of separation between church and state.

Most Christians and churches do not intentionally put up walls between races, but the society we live in has created divisions and barriers.

These far more contentious words - «a wall of separation between church and state» - lie at the heart of the ongoing debate between those who see America as a «Christian Nation» and those who see it as a secular republic, a debate that is hotter than a Washington Fourth of July.

Erecting the «wall of separation between church and state,» therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.

So between the Stop Saying God Bless You article and the Stop Using These Christian Cliches article, I gather that my «Christianese» makes people uncomfortable and I guess people should never feel uncomfortable so I should stop talking like a Christian, or at least keep my Jesus freak talk confined to the walls of the church where it belongs.

Like Thomas Jefferson, who famously called for a «wall of separation between church and state,» Holmes believed that personal beliefs had no place in judicial decisions.

To appreciate their fear of the consequences of too high a wall of separation between church and state, something vigorously supported by all too many secular and religious Jews?

Thankfully, in the U.S., we have a strong wall of separation between church and state (mostly top the credit of JM & TJ); and thankfully, the more the religious extremists push against the wall, the more the wall stands firm, the more the law is considered and more and more it is applied throughout civic law.

«The First Amendment never intended to separate Christian principles from government, he declares, pointing out that the phrase «wall of separation between church and state» appears not in the Constitution but in Jefferson's letter to Danbury Baptists in 1801.

«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.»

Even the phrase «wall of separation between church and state» was coined by Roger Williams (not Jefferson) as a responce to the Puritan's theocracy.

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.

The real problem is that much «Wall of Separation» rhetoric implies there is a clear, impregnable line between church and state activity when in practice over the twentieth century the principle of church - state separation has become one of lively democratic contestation and a degree of flexibility, allowing Catholics and other religious organizations to enter the public sphere and participate on the same terms as any other group.

That famous phrase: «a Wall of Separation between church and state», generated by Roger Williams, resuscitated by Justice Black and regurgitated by Rick Santorum, has assumed considerable political importance in the US over the past hundred years but is poorly understood.

But the Court also unanimously adopted the language of Justice Hugo Black in the same case: «The clause [no establishment of religion] was intended to erect «a wall of separation» between church and state.»

That clause prohibits «any law respecting an Establishment of Religion» and is popularly understood to create a «wall of separation» between church and state.

You can wander between the pretty squares, admiring the churches and Renaissance buildings, or admire the views from the ancient walls.

«In one home, there was a cutout in the wall between the kitchen and living room,» explains Matthew Quinn, a sales associate at Quinn's Realty & Estate Services in Falls Church, Va., who handles estate and real estate sales for family members whose loved ones have passed away.