by Lenni Brenner

CounterPunch

12/04/04

Jefferson & Madison On Separation of Church and State contains excerpts from 101 documents & 332 of their letters. It puts their writings on religion & secularism under 1 cover to be used to expose the antagonism between their anticlerical principles & the fanaticism of the religious right. They are 2 of history's clearest writers. Read them, & you will be hot to defend their separatism, best done by challenging freedom's foes to read & heed them. Bush tries to further involve religion in politics. Madison asked whether 'the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom?' Our pleasant task is to make the public ask Bush 'how come you ain't asking that?

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp