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the G-man said:
Let me ask: have politics ever been separate from religion?
The earliest civilizations tended to have religious edicts as their basic code of laws.
Many early religious laws were based, at least in part, on public policy grounds (ex: not eating pork to avoid trichinosis).
Most laws are based on a moral or philosophical underpinning. In turn, the vast majority of people get their moral or philosophical views from religion.
Is this all a big smoke screen? Is the "separation of church and state" merely a (sometimes) comforting illusion?
It is an illusion. Bush caters (Panders) to the religious right so he can get re elected. He is one of them (One of us now, gooble gobble) and the seperation of church and state - especially with Bush pushing to make Gay Marriage unconstitutional... is an illusion.
And that is all a distraction in it's own way..keep people focused on this...appeal to their bigotry....while using key words like FAMILY VALUES, SAVE THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE, etc, etc, ad nausem.
It's like a flea circus...the guy will TELL you the fleas are their performing, though all you see is tiny little swings moving about..but there are no fleas,....but you are supposed to think you see them...so, you are SUPPOSED to think you can see a seperation of church and state.
"I offer you a Vulcan prayer, Mr Suder. May your death bring you the peace you never found in life." - Tuvok. 
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