Linda Greenhouse, writing for the New York Times, discusses the US Supreme Court's recent decisions regarding display of the Ten Commandments.
For hundreds of years our nation has operated with the powerful doctrine of the "separation of church and state." The word "separate" can be either a verb (set or keep apart), or an adjective (detached or not shared with another). Is it any wonder that the court sent down two seemingly contradictory decisions?
My own feeling is that the founding fathers had it right. Church and state were never married. Is today's state of affairs what amounts to a "common-law" marriage, an unworkable blurring of the legitimate but different roles of religion and of government?
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