A 'Wall of Separation'?

In his 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association of Connecticut, President Thomas Jefferson coined the now famous (and oft' mis-quoted) phrase "a wall of separation between Church and State". I say mis-quoted because a thougthful reading of the Association's letter to the President in conjuction with his reply will provide greater insight into what he called a 'wall of separation'. But that is not our real topic for today.

Recently President Barack Obama, Thomas Jefferson's successor, has quoted scripture and given a call to action to the Citizens of these United States that we have a moral imperative to be 'our bother's keeper'. He is one hundred percent correct, up to that point. Then he described how it is the responsibility of the Federal Government to take up that role on behalf of the Citizens and tax them accordingly.

To me this smacks of either establishing a 'state religion', to which the Founding Fathers were vehemently opposed, or it is the beginnings of establishing 'the state' as a religion. What we see in this disingenuous attempt is a humanistic approach to Charity by surrounding the thoughts and words of men with a few, purposely chosen, scriptures to support the basis of but not the foundation of a 'cradle to grave' state system of care for its' Citizens.

Where are the a-theists and the ACLU?

We cannot, we must not allow this travesty to relieve the people of their Constitutional right to care for one another in the way our loving Father in Heaven has given to us.