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Michael Stokes Paulsen: Where in the Constitution is ?Separation of Church and State??

By Alliance Alert

Michael Stokes Paulsen writing at Public Discourse: "The correct understanding of the First Amendment is not that it forbids contact?and even voluntary cooperation?between church and state. Rather, it protects private religious liberty, but does so in two complementary ways. In a nutshell, government may neither compel nor prohibit religious exercise. The Establishment Clause side of the coin says that government may not prescribe religious exercise; the Free Exercise side says that government may not proscribe, disfavor or otherwise punish or prevent religious exercise voluntarily chosen by the people. But the two phrases are two sides of the same coin."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on October 28, 2010 (boomark / email).