“The words "separation of church and state" do not appear in the U.S. Constitution, but the concept is enshrined in the very first freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." Known as the establishment clause, the opening lines of the First Amendment prohibit the government from creating an official religion or favoring one religion (or nonreligion) over another.I underscored that bit about nonreligion BTW, as a lot of Christophobic, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, or otherwise religiously bigoted atheists would like nothing more than to shove their nonreligion down all of our throats, which I'm VERY much against, BTW.
The separation of church and state enables all Americans to practice their deeply held beliefs in private and in public.”
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men (and women) are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”I'd say that over 600,000,000 abortions every year are “destructive to [the] ends” of our “unalienable right” to life endowed by our “Creator”, wouldn't you?