Examining the Diminishing Separation of Church & State

There is a great post on American’s United for Separation of Church and State, which is a GREAT read.  Here’s an excerpt:

Old-style Religious Right leaders have already signaled that they intend to assume a confrontational stance. In a recent interview with the Baptist Press, Religious Right attorney Mat Staver blasted Obama with florid rhetoric, branding him a “threat.”

“I would consider him to be the biggest threat to religious liberty we’ve ever had because he will push the homosexual agenda,” said Staver, who runs a legal group affiliated with the late Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University. “I think churches and pastors will be very negatively affected by Obama’s policies.”

I also found a MUST READ FOR ALL on the Siren Chronicles entitled Undermining the First Amendment By Creeping Christian Prostelyzation.

Here’s a excerpt:

This is all terrifying to freedom loving, individual Americans, who rightly fear the establishment of any religion as “the state religion”.  Religion has a place in each individual’s life at a time and a place of each individual’s choosing, but it has no place being forced upon anyone.  The recent brouhaha on these pages about Rick Warren performing an invocation at the presidential inaugural maybe be viewed as a bit over reactive by some, and when it comes down to it, I can ignore that small interlude, as I have done so in similar situations for my entire life, but why should it be foisted on me in the first place during an act of state ceremony, and it does make me fear what else religious extremists might want to force upon me, will I, one day be forced to wear a religious insignia on my clothing, have all of my worldly possessions seized, have my friends and family torn away from me, and find myself marching to a gas chamber, all in service to some one’s skewed belief that their God is God and is the only God?

Click on the links to both to read the entire posts.  It’s well worth the time!