Santorum: "I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute", page 1

My concern has always considered the fact that the term, the 'separation between church and state', sometimes called the "wall of separation between church and state" is a mostly a one way street protecting the rights of religion, but doing little if anything to protect government against interference by religion.

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The First Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ...." and Article VI specifies that "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."

Jefferson's metaphor of a wall of separation has been cited repeatedly by the U.S. Supreme Court. In Reynolds v. United States (1879) the Court wrote that Jefferson's comments "may be accepted almost as an authoritative declaration of the scope and effect of the [First] Amendment." In Everson v. Board of Education (1947), Justice Hugo Black wrote: "In the words of Thomas Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect a wall of separation between church and state."[2]

However, I find it very interesting in what I can easily interrupt as a group having or imposing a religious belief on individuals in a smaller or different group by creating and enforcing a law by virtue of favored individuals in a position of power, i.e. POTUS as has already been described in rulings regarding the rights of individuals by SCOTUS referring to Section 1 of the 14th amendment under Discrimination and to continue, although originally ruled under 'Sexual Orientation' clearly stating SCOTUS "held that the amendment violated the Equal Protection Clause because the amendment was motivated by a bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group, which is never a legitimate governmental interest.

Discrimination is the prejudicial treatment of an individual based on their membership in a certain group or category. It involves the actual behaviors towards groups such as excluding or restricting members of one group from opportunities that are available to another group. The term began to be used as an expression of derogatory racial prejudice in the 1830s from Thomas D. Rice's performances as "Jim Crow".

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