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...

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…

  • @shalafi
    -5•1 year ago

    Written where exactly? A letter by Thomas Jefferson does not constitute law.

    The phrase many Americans use to describe religious freedom, “separation of church and state” is not found in either the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. It comes from an 1802 letter by President Thomas Jefferson.

    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.

    • ElleChaise
      16•1 year ago

      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!

      • @shalafi
        -5•1 year ago

        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.

    • @Sylver
      11•1 year ago

      Establishment Clause

      It does not literally spell out church and state separation, but that’s the clause in question to debate