In honor of Presidents Day, I would like to take a moment to focus on the separation of church and state in our country.
In this great country, we are afforded many freedoms and many protections. One of these is the idea that church and state should not intermingle. Lately, we have seen much religious hatred intermingled in our political processes -- candidates being attacked for their supposed religious standings, a senator attacked for his personal religious beliefs, politics being decided on the basis of one sect of one religion in a country where many people worship in many different ways.
On both sides of the debate, people turn to the Founding Fathers to figure out what they meant when they put the separation of church and state into place. As such, I would like to remind you of these words from President James Madison: “The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.”
Also, from the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli (developed by President George Washington’s administration): “The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion.”
When we attempt to define our great America by one religion, we neglect so much of our rich and unique heritage and disrespect what our Founding Fathers put into play so many years ago. Instead of focusing on hatred and divisiveness, they focused on a great future. Let us do likewise.
Jennifer Gates
Anderson
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Reflecting on importance of separation of church and state
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Letter: Public should have say on library space
As taxpayers, does the public have no say-so what happens with their tax dollars? With some proper schedule management, those existing meeting rooms can fulfill everyone’s needs.
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Letter: Election fraud tales turn voters away
Columnist Maureen Hayden asked, “Why did 3 million Hoosiers choose not to vote?” She gave a few reasons but I can think of another one.
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Letter: Elected officials should buy insurance
I may be wrong but I thought the city and county were hurting for money, and that’s why services keep getting cut or eliminated. One thing is evident. There is no shortage of money for lawsuits.
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Letter: Source of inequality is not economic
The truth of the collapse of a living-wage economy for working-class America is a social catastrophe and, increasingly, a severe embarrassment to free-market ideology.
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Letter: America following road to tyranny
Global elitists behind our government have methodically been guiding our government toward the New World Order.
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Letter: Let’s work through the problems
On May 14 I attended the county council meeting in hopes that I could understand what is happening in the legislative branch of our Madison County government. What I saw was politics at its worst and I cannot applaud either party.
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Letter: Columnist Brown ignores truth
It’s hard to understand why The Herald Bulletin carries columns by Susan Stamper Brown, who has such a blatant disregard for truth in her conservative propaganda.
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Letter: Taxpayers should thank the ‘few’
Are those who worry about the loss of the wheel tax concerned about the roads or about their jobs? Most of them could care less about people’s needs.
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Letter: Government officials should answer to us
We, the people, have allowed government officials to lead us into the crazy one world order. But, is it working? Well, look at the results.
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Viewpoint: Schools, volunteers reach out to pre-kindergartners, parents
On behalf of Born Learning Connection as service of the United Way of Madison County, I would like to thank all Madison County elementary schools for their generous support in making Blast Off to Kindergarten a countywide success.
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Letter: Public should have say on library space
