Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters on Tuesday vowed to bring Christian prayer back into his state’s public schools and suggested that the notion of church-state separation in the United States was a "myth."Writing on Twitter, Walters linked to a story about a recent speech he delivered to th…
He claims it is a myth, yet it is clearly written plain as day. On a document that has been passed down for generations.
What other long-standing documents does he not believe in I wonder? Does he apply the same logic to his Bible myths?
Cognitive dissonance, example 1.
Written where exactly? A letter by Thomas Jefferson does not constitute law.
Courts have rightly, IMHO, judged the 1A to include the notion, but let’s not pretend it’s quoted in the Constitution or Bill of Rights.
It’s literally the first line of the first amendment to the bill of rights written in 1789, dawg. Get with it.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.
Badaboom!
That does not include the words “separation of church and state”. It has been interpreted to mean that. Yet everyone in here acting like it’s written into law.
Establishment Clause
It does not literally spell out church and state separation, but that’s the clause in question to debate