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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1534284, member: 112"]Unfortunately there is no such clause in the Constitution that requires a separation of church and state. The clause simply says - Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof In article 6 it further says - No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States. Now that's pretty plain language, nice and clear. And nowhere does it say that there must be a separation of church and state. It says what I have just quoted above and that is it. It is people who wish to interpret those clauses to mean that there must be a separation of church and state because they want a such a separation. But the Constitution most definitely does not state that there must be. And by the way, the courts agree. And that is why In God We Trust is still on our coinage and currency. You have every right to disagree if you want to. But until the courts agree with you, it will likely stay just as it is.[/QUOTE]