See how they meltdown at this statement:
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34733 Wesley Clark on church and state
Posted: September 23, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
Wesley Clark is clearly the man to watch in the
Democratic
presidential primary.
Two days after he announced his candidacy, a
Newsweek poll
had him leading the pack of 10 Democrats seeking
the White
House.
While the nation has been engulfed in a debate
about
church-state relations this summer, Clark was
sounding off in a
radio interview about the subject.
Here's what he said on WGCU 90.1, a public radio
station in
southwest Florida:
Well, I am concerned like many people
are. I grew
up believing that the whole ... one of
the basic
principles in our country is that we
would keep
church and state separate. And this is
because
everyone is entitled to freedom of
religion, and that
is why people came to America in the
first place. ...
And we learned that in order to have
freedom of
religion, you've got to protect the state
from the
church. You don't want an established
church that
we're all being taxed to support, or at
least that's
the way it was put then. But it's a
little more
complicated than that. I think that it is
a wonderful
thing for people to have values and
religious, their
religious faith, and I certainly have
mine. But I
think that it is better for our democracy
and better
for our religion if we keep the two
separate.
Actually, most non-revisionist historians will
recognize that
Clark has the uniquely American concept of
freedom of
religion exactly backward. The founders weren't
trying to
protect the government from the church ? far
from it. They
were trying to protect the church from the
government. More....