Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. Today is Thursday, March the 9th, 2023. I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison

forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison. On January 1st, 1802, President Thomas Jefferson

wrote a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association of Connecticut, in which he famously stated,

and I quote,

I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people, which declared that

their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting

the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state.

End quote. Notice that Mr. Jefferson endorsed the separation between church and state, not the

separation between faith and state. Nonetheless, our secularized culture has become convinced that the former requires the latter.

Look no further than the firestorm that erupted when New York City Mayor Eric Adams stated recently,

and I quote, don't tell me about no separation of church and state. State is the body,

church is the heart. You take the heart out of the body,

the body dies. Speaking at his administration's annual interfaith breakfast, he added,

I can't separate my belief because I am an elected official. When I walk, I walk with God. When I talk,

I talk with God. When I put policies in place, I put them in place with a

God-like approach to them. Adams explained, that's who I am, and I was that when I was that

third grader, and I'm going to be that when I leave government. I am still a child of God,

and will always be a child of God, and I won't apologize about being a child of God.

It's not going to happen."

End quote.

On CNN's State of the Union, Dana Bush sought clarity from the mayor, as she stated,

one of the fundamentals of the Constitution is a separation of church and state when it comes to governing.

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