{"id":938,"date":"2012-09-27T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/27\/perry-steps-in-it-again"},"modified":"2012-09-27T14:42:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T14:42:00","slug":"perry-steps-in-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"Perry steps in it \u2026 again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/blogs\/burkablog\/?p=14185\" href=\"http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/blogs\/burkablog\/?p=14185\">http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/blogs\/burkablog\/?p=14185<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paul Burka has it exactly right. Rick Perry\u2019s latest pronouncement about church\/state separation will doom any future bid he might launch for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican Texas governor calls the notion of such separation as the work of the devil. He sounds so much like those on the far right who keep positing a goofy notion about what the Constitution says about the separation of church and state.<\/p>\n<p>A former colleague of mine is fond of saying that the U.S. Constitution does not contain the words \u201cchurch and state separation.\u201d He\u2019s right about that very narrow point. But the Constitution does say in its very first amendment that \u201cCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.\u201d And virtually every legal scholar \u2013 including some of those \u201cstrict constructionists\u201d \u2013 since has affirmed that the First Amendment means that the state and the church must be separate. I\u2019m no legal scholar, but I do understand fully what the framers meant when they wrote that amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Were they the spawns of Satan? No, they sought to create a secular nation that governs a people who are free to worship \u2013 or not worship \u2013 as they please.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/blogs\/burkablog\/?p=14185 Paul Burka has it exactly right. Rick Perry\u2019s latest pronouncement about church\/state separation will doom any future bid he might launch for the presidency. The Republican Texas governor calls the notion of such separation as the work of the devil. He sounds so much like those on the far right who keep positing a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=938\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perry steps in it \u2026 again<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}