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Delaware Congressional Candidate Says Church-State Separation Phrase Came From Hitler

By Howard M. Friedman

In Delaware, Tea Party candidate Glen Urquhart won this month's primary to become the Republican's candidate for the state's only seat in the House of Representatives.  He appears to have some some unusual church-state views.  Raw Story on Friday posted a video from an Urquhart campaign event in April in which Urquhart says:

Do you know, where does this phrase 'separation of church and state' come from? It was not in Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists. ... The exact phrase 'separation of Church and State' came out of Adolph Hitler?s mouth, that's where it comes from. So the next time your liberal friends talk about the separation of Church and State ask them why they?re Nazis.

Urquhart says his statement was taken out of context and that he did not mean to suggest that liberals are Nazis.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on September 19, 2010 (boomark / email).