Religious Freedom

(Old post on the Separation of Church and State)

The endless debate of the Separation between Church and State has always been insignificant to me. After reading Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists, this debate was still insignificant to me. Why was this separation so important when it didn't change anything? The Prop Eight results were infuriating; if this separation ignited so much freedom, then why is it that non-Christians are still the minority here in America? Shouldn't there be equality between the religious and the non-religious?

Then I realized what life would really be like without the separation between Church and State. All non-Christians would be in the minority, not just homosexuals. American culture would be drastically different. Without the separation of Church and State, America might not be the melting-pot it is now. All the cultures that are able to thrive so well here wouldn't exist in America. The Jewish community I belong to wouldn't exist, and the Hebrew classes that have brought me closer to my culture probably wouldn't be offered in the state school system.

The facts that intelligent design can still be taught in schools and that homosexuals still don't have equal rights make it seem like true separation between Church and State is far from complete. Yet, to have religious freedom means that all religions have equal rights. If Prop Eight had had different results, it would've meant that there wasn't a separation between Church and State--because there is a Christian majority here in the United States.


Greenberg, Paul. "Praise the Lord: Church and State are still Separate." Los Angeles Times Syndicate. July 3, 1992.