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Separation of church and state (view source)
Revision as of 04:49, March 30, 2011
, 04:49, March 30, 2011northwest ordinance article 3 - education
Jefferson and Madison insisted that a necessary condition for political freedom was religious freedom, and they insisted on the disestablishment of the Anglican, Presbyterian, and Congregational churches in the new states. That view, however, and the Jeffersonian notion that an impenetrable wall of separation must exist between church and state, has been called into question or attacked by such Supreme Court decisions as Sherbert v. Verner (1963), Employment Division of Oregon v. Smith (1990), and Boerne v. P. F. Flores (1993), which question the acceptance of religious pluralism, one of the great achievements of the American "experiment." <ref> Edwin S. Gaustad, "Thomas Jefferson, Religious Freedom, and the Supreme Court." ''Church History'' 1998 67(4): 682-694. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3169848 in JSTOR]</ref>
Jefferson and Madison insisted that a necessary condition for political freedom was religious freedom, and they insisted on the disestablishment of the Anglican, Presbyterian, and Congregational churches in the new states. That view, however, and the Jeffersonian notion that an impenetrable wall of separation must exist between church and state, has been called into question or attacked by such Supreme Court decisions as Sherbert v. Verner (1963), Employment Division of Oregon v. Smith (1990), and Boerne v. P. F. Flores (1993), which question the acceptance of religious pluralism, one of the great achievements of the American "experiment." <ref> Edwin S. Gaustad, "Thomas Jefferson, Religious Freedom, and the Supreme Court." ''Church History'' 1998 67(4): 682-694. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3169848 in JSTOR]</ref>
===Northwest Ordinance - importance of religion in education===
Under the [[Articles of Confederation]] government, which preceded the ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, Congress passed the [[Northwest Ordinance]] of 1787, a law designed to set up the modern state of [[Ohio]]. Article 3 reads as follows:
<blockquote>Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.<ref>http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/ordinance/text.html</ref></blockquote>
Article 1 of the Ordinance reads:
<blockquote>No person, demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory.<ref>http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/ordinance/text.html</ref></blockquote>
This law provides further proof that the "separation of Church and State" promoted by liberals and atheists today does not match the view of the Founding Fathers.
==="Not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion"===
==="Not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion"===