Separation of Church and State– The founders of our country would not stand for religion, Christianity in particular, being forced upon American citizens. It apparently must be reminded why Europeans fled here in the first place, and the principles on which our Constitution was written. The Church has absolutely no role in government. Faith is an important and wonderful thing, but a separation must be established.

“I do not believe it is for the interest of religion to invite the civil magistrate to direct its exercises, its discipline, or its doctrines; nor of the religious societies that the general government should be invested with the power of effecting any uniformity of time or matter among them. Fasting and prayer are religious exercises. The enjoining them, an act of discipline. Every religious society has a right to determine for itself the times for these exercises and the objects proper for them according to their own particular tenets; and this right can never be safer than in their own hands where the Constitution has deposited it... Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the United States, and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents (letter to Samuel Miller, Jan. 23, 1808).”
-Thomas Jefferson