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By now the entire nation is aware of the fact that a decisive majority of Californians declared definitively that in their state “marriage” would remain defined in explicitly monogamous, heterosexual terms.

Equally obvious to all is the reaction that the successful passage of “Proposition 8” elicited from its left-wing opponents. The gross incivility displayed by the proponents of “same-sex marriage” toward the majority of their fellow residents, and the Mormon Church in particular, is self-condemnatory. But it is the Left’s charge that “Proposition 8” violates the so-called “Church/State separation clause” in the Constitution on which I want to focus here.

That there is no such clause, that the expression “separation of Church and State” originates in and reaches no further than one letter written by Thomas Jefferson, and that our Founding Fathers intended only to insure that America would be devoid of a government sponsored Church are facts easily verified. Even the Left knows this. And this is the point: for all of their Constitutionally-charged rhetoric, leftists, or at least militant leftists, care not a lick about whether religion per se fuses with politics.

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