n July 4, we will celebrate American independence from kings who ruled over both church and state. Two hundred and fifty years ago, the founders of this country put forward a bold and radical idea: that religious freedom is safest when the government neither controls religion nor is controlled by it.
The founders were not perfect; at the nation’s founding, freedom belonged only to white men. But they pioneered the promise of a country where the government is of, by, and for the people—and understood the vital role that church-state separation played in that experiment.
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