The episode, “Grilled Cheesus,” was about Kurt’s father having a heart attack. The glee club goes through songs that are religious in nature. And because of this, there was a complaint made to the principal. During Mr. Shu’s meeting with the principal, Sue Sulvester says that they can’t sing these songs because it violates the constitution calling for the separation of church and state.
Of course after she said that I rolled my eyes. First off, because I think that phrase is widely overused and because it is rarely ever used correctly. The constitution never actually calls for the “separation of church and state.” The part of that document that people are referring to is in the first amendment where it states:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances”
(http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment01/)
This is also called the establishment clause.
If you read it like that, then you can see that it really doesn’t call for the church to stay out of the state’s business, but it tells the state to stay out of the church’s business. This is what the founding fathers really wanted, because of the constant persecution and interference of England with their religion.
People have taken that to a whole new level though. They think that you need to take every part of religion (especially the religion of those who originally made this country what it is) out of the government. This, in my opinion, is completely ridiculous. Mainly because, as stated above, the way people use this is out of context and because if you ARE indeed a person of faith, there is no way you can separate your beliefs from your actions.
My faith takes a part of my life every day; from deciding what to wear in the morning to what I talk about during the day. It happens naturally, without thought. So, to expect me to separate my faith from my political beliefs is ridiculous.
Because I am a Christ follower, there are a lot of things that I can’t agree with that are very main stream. I am pro life because I believe that God values every human life from the moment of conception (Psalm 139:13). I also believe in the sanctity of marriage, because God intended marriage to be between a man and a woman (Gen. 2:24, 1 Cor. 7:2-16). And it is in no way unconstitutional for me to allow my faith to influence my political beliefs or my political decisions.
This whole situation with the separation of church and state has gotten out of control. It is taking the establishment clause of the constitution completely out of the context it was written in.
As a country we are trying to take our Christian heritage out of everything we do. How can we do that when this country was founded because our ancestors were facing persecution because they were Christians? As a country, we are doing to Christians what was done to our ancestors in England. We are doing exactly what our fore fathers feared. We are taking God out of our country, which is something that the majority of them would never have intended by making the establishment clause.
I guess the main stream media would like for us to believe that God has no place in our country, which is why they continue to put little jabs at Him in their TV shows. I guess I’ll just continue to roll my eyes at them. Mostly because their ignorance is at best laughable, at least to those of us who actually know what we are talking about.
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