The Inauguration

This is the inauguration of my rethinking the doctrine of separation of church and state. Many conservatives have argued that it never existed in the Constitution but but invented unconstitutionally by activist judges in the 1950s or thereabouts.

As a moderate, I like the separation of church and state (I grew up on it.) doctrine as a means of prohibiting religious zealots from taking over government, from persecuting unbelievers, from prosecuting rival faiths. These concerns are eternal, but the Left has become the religion of all Progressives, and these Marxists atheists are now using government and evisceration of the Constitutional to impose their faith and tyranny upon all, including attacking religious believers.

I am in favor of passing a Constitutional Amendment enforcing separation of Church and State, but do not now believe that it ever existed in the Constitution. I am reading very carefully Levin's Chapter 3 in Liberty and Tyranny, to catch his study of this.

I believe that Levin asserts that there is no separation of church and state clause. He argues instead that God made the world, set up natural law and its transcendent moral order to guide human conduct. The Constitution is our fire and foremost legal basis and charter for guiding the setting up the American political system in such a way as to protect and secure God-given natural and unalienable rights that are prior to the Constitution and enacted laws, federal, state or local.

The whole government is imbued, infused, blessed, guided directed by God. There is no separation of church and state but there is to be government that allows faith to be in government but never coercive, tyrannical or discriminatory faith. I will anticipate that this is Levin's reading of the Constitution.