Do you know your state flower? How about your state religion?

According to this article in the New York Times, Clarence Thomas believes that the constitutional separation of church and state applies to the federal government but not to state governments, meaning that individual states could adopt an official religion and use tax money to proselytize for it.

I think the writer of this article is being optimistic if he/she thinks that's all that could happen. In England 350 years ago, people who did not conform to the state religion were prohibited from many jobs including holding public office, persecuted, and even killed. The same happened in Spain during the Inquisition. I've read opinions by fanatic Christian politicians in the States in the last year or so that because the US is a "Christian nation", only Christians should be allowed to hold political office. Do not make the mistake of believing it couldn't happen.

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