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Americans United for Separation of Church and State was founded on January 11, 1948, [1] as Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State (POAU) by a coalition of religious, educational and civic leaders.
"Separation of church and state" is a metaphor paraphrased from Thomas Jefferson and used by others in discussions of the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof".
In the view of some Americans, separation of church and state is a wall that means that Christians (particularly) shouldn’t attempt to influence voters or elected officials; Christians shouldn ...
Barry W. Lynn (born 1948) is an American activist who was the executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State from 1992 to November 2017, when he retired. [1] [2] He was ordained as a minister in the United Church of Christ and a prominent leader of the religious left in the United States. [3]
Governing magazine examined the history behind the separation of church and state in American court rulings and found a general softening in recent years.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State, 454 U.S. 464 (1982), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the court refused to expand the Flast v. Cohen exception to the taxpayer standing rule.
"The separation of church and state is a misnomer," Johnson said in an interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box." "People misunderstand it," he continued. "Of course, it comes from a phrase that was in a ...
Leo Pfeffer (December 25, 1910 in Osijek — June 4, 1993 in Goshen, New York) [1] was an American lawyer, constitutional scholar, and humanist who was active in movement for religious freedom in the United States, and was one of leading legal proponents of the separation of church and state.