With the separation of church, this would mean that there would be no religious references in political documents, proceedings, or any religious mention in public schools. Although people would like this to happen, in actuality, this type of regulation would never completely work. As I stated before, our country was built by Christians and Christianity is our dominant religion. If you were to try to totally get rid of all religious references in politics, many political leaders wouldn't have a basis for many of the arguments. Not only in politics, but also in schools, there aren't ways to escape religion. Personally, I can name many discussions that I have had in high school regarding religion even though technically, you aren't supposed to speak of it.
Even in presidential elections, when certain subjects were adressed such as gay marriage, many candidates use religion as a basis of their opinion on the subject. Basically, if separation of church were to become apart of the constitution, then simple things like this wouldn't be able to happen.
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I don't think that complete seperation of church and state can ever be accomplished. Like you said in your post, to eliminate all religious discussions from schools and politics is virtually impossible. It is the foundation for debate on many issues including gay marriage and abortions. Because these issues will probably never go away, the complete seperation of church and state is not very likely.
Religion can most definately be discussed in a public high school. The restriction occurs when a teacher is influencing the views of his/her students. There can be intelligent and unbiased conversation in order to foster learning, and, from first hand experience, I believe that this is completely necessary in a high school classroom. I think that you may need to define exactly where you want to see church and state more separated. Do you not want to have these discussions at all?
Thank you Anne for your comment. I see your point on things such as this being necessary in a classroom. My point however, was to prove that these such things do happen in public schools even though there is not to be any religious reference in schools (at least in CMS - my school district).
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