... Amendment) I believe this means protection of the church from the government. However, the contemporary interpretation has come to mean protection of the people from the church. People making this interpretation twist the meaning of the phrase, "separation of church and state" to support this new view of the First Amendment. This began in 1947 with the United States Supreme Court's decision ... in American public life." (Jeremiah Project, p.3) It was Justice Black who linked the phrase, "separation of church and state" with the First Amendment. According to Mathew Staver, Supreme Court ...

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