Rep. Lauren Boebert's call to collapse separation of church and state spurs alarm
1802 missive to the Danbury Baptist Association, in which the author of the Declaration of Independence wrote that the First Amendment builds "a wall of separation between Church and State."The Constitution's First Amendment states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
Annie Laurie Gaylor, a founding member of the nonprofit Freedom From Religion Foundation, said in an interview with"It’s not liberty when you start forcing your dogma on everybody else," she said., who has written two books about the American Christian right. "She’s the product of a multi-decade campaign to elect Christian nationalists to public office and this is a central tenet of their ideology.
Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissent that the court "continues to dismantle the wall of separation between church and state that the Framers fought to build."Boebert, who has been described as a white Christian nationalist, will face off against several challengers tonight for the Republican nomination.Boebert's office did not immediately return a request for comment.
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