Separation of Church and State

On Tuesday night I went up on campus for a dinner and for a lecture by Dr. Daniel Dresbaich of American University who is a Rhodes Scholar.   His subject was: Separation of Church and State.

   

I attended the dinner early in the evening with Dr. Frank Barrios and Trudy Lee and heard some early remarks from the speaker.  He kept saying that Thomas Jefferson had a different idea in mind with separation of church and state and gave incidents.  He said that Jefferson thought that some powers were given to the Federal system and some to state system.   The statement and its implications led to much name -calling about Jefferson being an infidel, etc.

 

I had to laugh.  Does anything ever change?   Still fighting those battles.  Last night I saw the pastor of First Baptist, Dallas, say he was for Mitt Romney and no abortions ever.   I thought about church and state again.   Are their legal lines that should not be crossed or have these boundaries been eliminated?

 

Still it is good to hear the isssues explained in light of history!