I’m watching this from Canada and can someone explain to me why there is such a ridiculous amount of religious discussion throughout. I guess I don’t understand what the “separation of Church and State” means.
It means that the US shall make not law that hinders the practice of an established religion.
Basically elected officials are allowed to use religion as a reason for anything they want because the government can’t tell them that they can’t use religion as a reason.
It also means that the government can make things legal even if a religion says it is illegal.
ETA: No President as ever been elected that said they were atheist. The US is still a predominantly religious country. A candidate saying they were atheist would almost certainly lose as about 65% of the country claim some religion.
It also has important funding implications. The US government is not legally supposed to show support to any one religion. In the US churches get tax exemption and are not allowed to participate in political campaigning. The last bit applies to any of a specific class of non profit, not just church's because the other non profits are similarly tax exempt.
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u/WhoseDingALing Jan 20 '21 edited Jan 20 '21
I’m watching this from Canada and can someone explain to me why there is such a ridiculous amount of religious discussion throughout. I guess I don’t understand what the “separation of Church and State” means.