Rick Garnett on Religion in Politics

The relationship between religion and politics has evolved over the past 25 years, but there’s still nothing un-American about believers engaging the political process.

Rick Garnett opining in USA Today on the separation of church and state:

What the separation of church and state demands is that governments accept and respect the distinctiveness and independence of religious institutions and communities. It is not a menorah in the public park or the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance that today threaten to undermine the "wall of separation."

Instead, the present threats come, for example, from state laws that require religiously affiliated agencies to pay for their employees' contraception, and from employment-discrimination lawsuits challenging religious schools' decisions about the hiring and firing of teachers.

(HT Professor Bainbridge)