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| The Separationists attempt to disarm us with this question: | |
| Do separationists want to eliminate religion from public life? | Clearly they do. |
| Absolutely not. If separationism means anything, it is that people should have the freedom to act publicly on their religious beliefs without coercion from the state. | But a Christian who teaches in a public school should not be allowed to have a Bible on her desk or be allowed to answer students' questions about her faith, even at lunch time. Peloza v. Capistrano Unified School Dist., 37 F.3d 517 (9th Cir. 1994) |
| Nevertheless, the First Amendment had the effect of forbidding anyone from using the government to pass sectarian legislation (i.e., legislation designed to establish religious belief by law). | "Sectarian" and "religious" are not synonymous. The purpose of education, according to the Founders, was to teach religion. But there were not to be "secatarian," that is, advance the distinctive beliefs of one denomination over another. A purely Christian school can be "non-sectarian." |
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