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Originally Posted by GDwarf
Religious leaders should, of course, be allowed to run for president (or whatever)...as citizens.
However, they should not be able to run as religious leaders, nor should they rule as them.
FoV, separation of church and state means exactly what it sounds like, religion should have no impact on what a government does.
Marking Christmas as a special holiday does violate that, which is why governments do not, in fact, call the holiday Christmas.
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Separation of church and state was meant to keep the the government from choosing religions for people. To keep the religious dictatorship away. Not to take completely legal things away. Besides, they don't have to pay state taxes but they still have to pay federal taxes, why? Because its church and state not church and country.
Besides, whether we like it or not religion is now integrated on every level. SO it is going to affect the government's decisions no matter what now : / .